Phi Sigma Pi
| Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity | |
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| ΦΣΠ | |
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| Founded | February 14, 1916 University of Central Missouri |
| Type | Honor |
| Scope | National USA
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| Colors | Purple █ and Gold █ |
| Chapters | 135 Collegiate, 17 Alumni |
| Members | ca. 50,000 collegiate |
| Tripod of Ideals |
Leadership, and Fellowship |
| Headquarters |
2119 Ambassador Circle Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA |
| Homepage | Phi Sigma Pi website |
Phi Sigma Pi (ΦΣΠ) is a gender-inclusive national honor fraternity based in the United States. The fraternity is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania, with the purpose of fostering the ideals of scholarship, leadership, and fellowship. Phi Sigma Pi is organized into approximately one hundred and forty collegiate chapters at four-year collegiate institutions and several regionally established alumni chapters and associations serving approximately 50,000 brothers. Although collegiate chapters may fall under the purview of university student governing bodies, Phi Sigma Pi maintains no affiliation with the North-American Interfraternity Conference.
Membership in Phi Sigma Pi is open to students at four-year collegiate institutions who have earned a 3.0 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.00 scale, where 4.00 is equivalent to a grade of "A") for at least one semester or quarter of collegiate work. Individual Chapters can raise this requirement, for example to a 3.25, but they cannot lower it.
Phi Sigma Pi was founded at State Teachers College at Warrensburg - now known as University of Central Missouri - on February 14, 1916, by Dr. Eldo L. Hendricks, Dr. Claude A. Phillips, and Dr. Clarence H. McClure. The fraternity became national in 1921 when a Third chapter was founded at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. The fraternity has since evolved from an honorary professional fraternity to a professional education fraternity, and then, in 1966, to an honor fraternity for all disciplines. Phi Sigma Pi became coeducational in 1977.
Hendricks, Phillips and McClure contacted Phi Beta Kappa and requested permission to establish a chapter. Phi Beta Kappa policy stated that chapters could only be established on campuses of qualified liberal arts colleges and universities, since Warrensburg did not meet this requirement the founding of a chapter was not possible.
The Omicron Delta Kappa was also contacted. Omicron Delta Kappa had the same requirements for chapter establishment as Phi Beta Kappa; therefore Warrensburg could not have a chapter.
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