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'Professional fraternities', in the North American fraternity system, are organizations whose membership is restricted to students and faculty members in a particular field of professional education. Within that field, their membership is exclusive; however, they may initiate members who belong to other types of fraternities.
Professional fraternities are often confused with honor societies because of their focus on a specific disciple. Professional fraternities are actually significantly different from honor societies in that honor societies are associations designed to provide recognition of the past achievement of those who are invited to membership. Honor society membership, in most cases, requires no period of pledging, and new members can be immediately inducted into membership after meeting predetermined academic criteria and paying a one time membership fee. Because of their purpose of recognition, most honor societies will have much higher academic achievement requirements for membership. Professional fraternities, on the other hand, work to build brotherhood among members and cultivate the strengths of members in order to serve the community and provide assistance to one another in their mutual areas of professional study. Membership in a professional fraternity is generally the result of lengthy pledge process, much like any other social fraternity; and members are expected to remain loyal and active in the organization for life. A few groups, such as Phi Sigma Pi, are considered to be both a fraternity and an honors organization. These organizations require higher GPAs, like an honor society, but operate as a brotherhood like a traditional professional fraternity.
The first professional fraternity was founded at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1819: the Kappa Lambda Society of Aesculapius, established for the purpose of bringing together students of the medical profession. The fraternity lasted until about 1858.
Of the professional fraternities still in existence, the oldest is Phi Delta Phi law fraternity, founded at the University of Michigan in 1869.
While nearly all professional fraternities are now required by federal law (commonly referred to as "Title IX," enacted in 1972) to be co-ed, several still restrict membership to only men or only women. Because the primary goal of professional fraternities is to prepare students to be leaders in specific professions, and to advance the interests of those professions, under Title IX, it would be considered discrimination to limit such opportunities to one sex, and federal funding could be withheld from any institution that discriminates on the basis of sex. The few professional fraternities that have remained single sex have been allowed to do so because they have defined themselves primarily as general social fraternities, while still retaining their focus on a specific professional discipline. Department of Education regulations adopted pursuant to Title IX allow such an exception for "the membership practices of social fraternities and sororities." (34 C.F.R. Sec. 106.14(a)).[1] Examples of professional groups that have been granted exception to remain single sex because of their social focus include Alpha Gamma Rho, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Sigma Alpha Iota.
Most major professional fraternities are members of the Professional Fraternity Association. This group resulted in 1978 from a merger of the Professional Interfraternity Conference (PIC) (for men's groups) and the Professional Panhellenic Association (PPA) (for women's groups).
★ 'ΑΖ' - Alpha Zeta - Agriculture
★ 'ΑΓΡ' - Alpha Gamma Rho - Agriculture, exclusively male
★ 'ΣΑ' - Sigma Alpha - Agriculture, exclusively female
★ 'ΑΡΧ' - Alpha Rho Chi - Architecture
★ Scarab - Architecture
★ 'ΑΚΨ' - Alpha Kappa Psi - Business
★ 'ΓΙΣ' - Gamma Iota Sigma - Insurance, Risk Management, Actuary Science
★ 'ΔΣΠ' - Delta Sigma Pi - Business
★ 'ΠΣΕ' - Pi Sigma Epsilon - Sales and Marketing
★ 'ΡΕ' - Rho Epsilon - Real Estate
★ 'ΣΙΕ' - Sigma Iota Epsilon- National Honorary and Professional Management Fraternity
★ 'ΦΓΝ' - Phi Gamma Nu - Business
★ 'ΦΧΘ' - Phi Chi Theta - Business
★ 'ΑΩΕ' - Alpha Omega Epsilon - Engineering
★ 'ΘΤ' - Theta Tau - Engineering
★ 'ΣΦΔ' - Sigma Phi Delta - Computer Science and Engineering
★ 'ΦΛ' - Phi Lambda - Computer Science and Engineering
★ 'ΔΘΦ' - Delta Theta Phi - Law
★ 'ΦΑΔ' - Phi Alpha Delta — Law
★ 'ΦΔΦ' - Phi Delta Phi - Law
★ 'AΓK' - Alpha Gamma Kappa - Podiatry
★ 'ΑΤΔ' - Alpha Tau Delta - Nursing
★ 'ΑΩ' - Alpha Omega - Dentistry
★ 'ΑΥ' - Alpha Psi Fraternity - Veterinary Medicine
★ 'BΣ' - Beta Sigma - Medicine
★ 'ΔΕΜ' - Delta Epsilon Mu - Health
★ 'ΔΣΔ' - Delta Sigma Delta - Dentistry
★ 'ΚΓΔ' - Kappa Gamma Delta - Medicine
★ 'ΚΕ' - Kappa Epsilon - Pharmacy
★ 'KTE' - Kappa Tau Epsilon - Podiatry
★ 'ΚΨ' - Kappa Psi - Pharmacy
★ 'ΜΣΦ' - Mu Sigma Phi - University of the Philippines Medicine
★ 'ΣΜΔ' - Sigma Mu Delta - Medicine
★ 'ΣфХ' -Sigma Phi Chi- Chiropractic womens professional sorority
★ 'ΦΑΣ' - Phi Alpha Sigma - Medicine
★ 'ΦΔΕ' - Phi Delta Epsilon - Medicine
★ 'ΦΔΧ' - Phi Delta Chi - Pharmacy
★ 'ΦKM' - Phi Kappa Mu - Medicine - University of the Philippines
★ 'ΦΡΣ' - Phi Rho Sigma - Medicine
★ 'ΦΧ' - Phi Chi - Medicine
★ 'ΩΤΣ' - Omega Tau Sigma - Veterinary Medicine
★ 'ΔΟΣ' - Delta Omicron Sigma - Military veterans
★ 'ΔΦΕ' - Delta Phi Epsilon - Foreign Service
★ Scabbard and Blade - Military
★ 'ΔΟ' - Delta Omicron - Music
★ 'ΚΚΨ' - Kappa Kappa Psi - Band
★ 'ΜΦΕ' - Mu Phi Epsilon - Music
★ 'ΣΑΙ' - Sigma Alpha Iota - Music, exclusively female
★ 'ΤΒΣ' - Tau Beta Sigma - Band
★ 'AIO' - Alpha Iota Omicron - Networking/Community Service
★ 'ΑΦΩ' - Alpha Phi Omega - Community Service
★ 'ΑEΖ' - Alpha Epsilon Zeta - South Asian Professional
★ 'ΑΕΡ' - Alpha Epsilon Rho - Broadcasting
★ 'ΑΗΡ' - Alpha Eta Rho - Aviation
★ 'ΑΧΣ' - Alpha Chi Sigma - Chemistry
★ 'ΓΕΤ' - Gamma Epsilon Tau - Printing and Digital Media
★ 'ΖΦΗ' - Zeta Phi Eta - Communication arts & sciences
★ 'ΛΑ' - Lambda Alpha - Anthropology
★ 'ΛΚΣ' - Lambda Kappa Sigma - Pharmacology for women
★ 'ΡΠΦ' - Rho Pi Phi - Pharmacology
★ 'ΦΑΤ' - Phi Alpha Tau - Communicative Arts
★ 'ΦΒ' - Phi Beta - Creative and Performing Arts
★ 'ΦΣΠ' - Phi Sigma Pi - National Honor Fraternity
★ Greekopedia: A wiki for Fraternities and Sororities
★ Professional Fraternity Association webpage
1. "[1] Code of Federal Regulations, PART 106: NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Professional fraternities are often confused with honor societies because of their focus on a specific disciple. Professional fraternities are actually significantly different from honor societies in that honor societies are associations designed to provide recognition of the past achievement of those who are invited to membership. Honor society membership, in most cases, requires no period of pledging, and new members can be immediately inducted into membership after meeting predetermined academic criteria and paying a one time membership fee. Because of their purpose of recognition, most honor societies will have much higher academic achievement requirements for membership. Professional fraternities, on the other hand, work to build brotherhood among members and cultivate the strengths of members in order to serve the community and provide assistance to one another in their mutual areas of professional study. Membership in a professional fraternity is generally the result of lengthy pledge process, much like any other social fraternity; and members are expected to remain loyal and active in the organization for life. A few groups, such as Phi Sigma Pi, are considered to be both a fraternity and an honors organization. These organizations require higher GPAs, like an honor society, but operate as a brotherhood like a traditional professional fraternity.
History
The first professional fraternity was founded at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1819: the Kappa Lambda Society of Aesculapius, established for the purpose of bringing together students of the medical profession. The fraternity lasted until about 1858.
Of the professional fraternities still in existence, the oldest is Phi Delta Phi law fraternity, founded at the University of Michigan in 1869.
Title IX Applied to Professional Fraternities
While nearly all professional fraternities are now required by federal law (commonly referred to as "Title IX," enacted in 1972) to be co-ed, several still restrict membership to only men or only women. Because the primary goal of professional fraternities is to prepare students to be leaders in specific professions, and to advance the interests of those professions, under Title IX, it would be considered discrimination to limit such opportunities to one sex, and federal funding could be withheld from any institution that discriminates on the basis of sex. The few professional fraternities that have remained single sex have been allowed to do so because they have defined themselves primarily as general social fraternities, while still retaining their focus on a specific professional discipline. Department of Education regulations adopted pursuant to Title IX allow such an exception for "the membership practices of social fraternities and sororities." (34 C.F.R. Sec. 106.14(a)).[1] Examples of professional groups that have been granted exception to remain single sex because of their social focus include Alpha Gamma Rho, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Sigma Alpha Iota.
Umbrella Organizations
Most major professional fraternities are members of the Professional Fraternity Association. This group resulted in 1978 from a merger of the Professional Interfraternity Conference (PIC) (for men's groups) and the Professional Panhellenic Association (PPA) (for women's groups).
List of professional fraternities
Agriculture
★ 'ΑΖ' - Alpha Zeta - Agriculture
★ 'ΑΓΡ' - Alpha Gamma Rho - Agriculture, exclusively male
★ 'ΣΑ' - Sigma Alpha - Agriculture, exclusively female
Architecture
★ 'ΑΡΧ' - Alpha Rho Chi - Architecture
★ Scarab - Architecture
Business
★ 'ΑΚΨ' - Alpha Kappa Psi - Business
★ 'ΓΙΣ' - Gamma Iota Sigma - Insurance, Risk Management, Actuary Science
★ 'ΔΣΠ' - Delta Sigma Pi - Business
★ 'ΠΣΕ' - Pi Sigma Epsilon - Sales and Marketing
★ 'ΡΕ' - Rho Epsilon - Real Estate
★ 'ΣΙΕ' - Sigma Iota Epsilon- National Honorary and Professional Management Fraternity
★ 'ΦΓΝ' - Phi Gamma Nu - Business
★ 'ΦΧΘ' - Phi Chi Theta - Business
Engineering
★ 'ΑΩΕ' - Alpha Omega Epsilon - Engineering
★ 'ΘΤ' - Theta Tau - Engineering
★ 'ΣΦΔ' - Sigma Phi Delta - Computer Science and Engineering
★ 'ΦΛ' - Phi Lambda - Computer Science and Engineering
Law
★ 'ΔΘΦ' - Delta Theta Phi - Law
★ 'ΦΑΔ' - Phi Alpha Delta — Law
★ 'ΦΔΦ' - Phi Delta Phi - Law
Medicine
★ 'AΓK' - Alpha Gamma Kappa - Podiatry
★ 'ΑΤΔ' - Alpha Tau Delta - Nursing
★ 'ΑΩ' - Alpha Omega - Dentistry
★ 'ΑΥ' - Alpha Psi Fraternity - Veterinary Medicine
★ 'BΣ' - Beta Sigma - Medicine
★ 'ΔΕΜ' - Delta Epsilon Mu - Health
★ 'ΔΣΔ' - Delta Sigma Delta - Dentistry
★ 'ΚΓΔ' - Kappa Gamma Delta - Medicine
★ 'ΚΕ' - Kappa Epsilon - Pharmacy
★ 'KTE' - Kappa Tau Epsilon - Podiatry
★ 'ΚΨ' - Kappa Psi - Pharmacy
★ 'ΜΣΦ' - Mu Sigma Phi - University of the Philippines Medicine
★ 'ΣΜΔ' - Sigma Mu Delta - Medicine
★ 'ΣфХ' -Sigma Phi Chi- Chiropractic womens professional sorority
★ 'ΦΑΣ' - Phi Alpha Sigma - Medicine
★ 'ΦΔΕ' - Phi Delta Epsilon - Medicine
★ 'ΦΔΧ' - Phi Delta Chi - Pharmacy
★ 'ΦKM' - Phi Kappa Mu - Medicine - University of the Philippines
★ 'ΦΡΣ' - Phi Rho Sigma - Medicine
★ 'ΦΧ' - Phi Chi - Medicine
★ 'ΩΤΣ' - Omega Tau Sigma - Veterinary Medicine
Military, Government, & Foreign Service
★ 'ΔΟΣ' - Delta Omicron Sigma - Military veterans
★ 'ΔΦΕ' - Delta Phi Epsilon - Foreign Service
★ Scabbard and Blade - Military
Music
★ 'ΔΟ' - Delta Omicron - Music
★ 'ΚΚΨ' - Kappa Kappa Psi - Band
★ 'ΜΦΕ' - Mu Phi Epsilon - Music
★ 'ΣΑΙ' - Sigma Alpha Iota - Music, exclusively female
★ 'ΤΒΣ' - Tau Beta Sigma - Band
Service
★ 'AIO' - Alpha Iota Omicron - Networking/Community Service
★ 'ΑΦΩ' - Alpha Phi Omega - Community Service
Other
★ 'ΑEΖ' - Alpha Epsilon Zeta - South Asian Professional
★ 'ΑΕΡ' - Alpha Epsilon Rho - Broadcasting
★ 'ΑΗΡ' - Alpha Eta Rho - Aviation
★ 'ΑΧΣ' - Alpha Chi Sigma - Chemistry
★ 'ΓΕΤ' - Gamma Epsilon Tau - Printing and Digital Media
★ 'ΖΦΗ' - Zeta Phi Eta - Communication arts & sciences
★ 'ΛΑ' - Lambda Alpha - Anthropology
★ 'ΛΚΣ' - Lambda Kappa Sigma - Pharmacology for women
★ 'ΡΠΦ' - Rho Pi Phi - Pharmacology
★ 'ΦΑΤ' - Phi Alpha Tau - Communicative Arts
★ 'ΦΒ' - Phi Beta - Creative and Performing Arts
★ 'ΦΣΠ' - Phi Sigma Pi - National Honor Fraternity
External links
★ Greekopedia: A wiki for Fraternities and Sororities
★ Professional Fraternity Association webpage
References
1. "[1] Code of Federal Regulations, PART 106: NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
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