Societies_at_Colgate_University

List of Colgate University societies

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Since being founded in 1819, Colgate University has had a rich tradition of student societies. Literary societies, Greek letter fraternities and sororities, non-Greek letter organizations, honor societies, and secret societies have all played a part in Colgate history.

Social fraternities came to Colgate in 1850 when Alpha Delta Phi was granted a chapter.^[1] The first sorority was brought to Colgate in 1982 when a chapter of Gamma Phi Beta (Gamma Phi) received a charter.

Secret or underground organizations have had a widespread existence at Colgate University. Many of the school's original societies had roots as underground organizations. In terms of secret honor societies, Colgate has also had its fair share. Two secret Honor Societies, the Gorgon's Head and Skull and Scroll, enjoyed a period as rival societies until 1934 when they merged to form Konosioni, now known as the Tredecim Senior Honor Society. Even with its history, Tredecim is no longer a secret society but is now seen as a leadership society, with only 26 members of each graduating class peer-selected to membership.

Following is a list of Colgate University societies, organized by charter date. Active organizations are indicated in bold.

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Name	Charter date and range	Type	Status	References
Society for Inquiry	1824	Literary	Inactive	^[2]
Gamma Phi	bef. 1833–1840	Literary	Inactive
Pi Delta	c. 1834–1840	Literary	Inactive
Adelphian Society	1840–1880	Literary and oration	Inactive	^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Aeonian Society	1840–1887	Literary and oration	Inactive	^[3]^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Alpha Delta Phi	1850–1851; 1964–1972	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[1]
Delta Kappa Epsilon	1856–2009	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[1]
Delta Upsilon	1865	Social fraternity	Active	^[1]
Aldelphia	1872–1880	Social fraternity	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 3]}
Delta Phi	1874–1876	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[1]
Aeonia	1880–1887	Social fraternity	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Union Debating Society	188x ?–1887	Literary and oration	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Beta Theta Pi	1880	Social fraternity	Active	^[4]
Theta Nu Epsilon	1880	Social fraternity	Inactive
Phi Kappa Psi	1887–1982	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[5]^{[lower-alpha 6]}
Phi Gamma Delta	1886–1969, 1976–1989	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[6]^[1]
Madison Club	1902–1917	Literary and oration	Inactive	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 7]}
Owls Club	1907–1908	Non-Greek fraternal organization	Inactive	^{[lower-alpha 8]}
Gorgon's Head	1908–1934	Secret senior honor society	Merged	^[7]^[8]^[9]^{[lower-alpha 9]}
Sigma Alpha	1909–1918	Social fraternity	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 10]}
Theta Mu	1911–1912	Social fraternity	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 11]}
Skull and Scroll	1912–1934	Secret senior honor society	Merged	^[7]^[8]^[9]^{[lower-alpha 9]}
Theta Chi	1912	Social fraternity	Active	^[1]
Theta Delta Sigma	1914–1917	Social fraternity	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 12]}
Lambda Chi Alpha	1916–1972	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[10]^[1]
Alpha Tau Omega	1917–2000	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[11]^[1]
Sigma Nu	1917–1968	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[12]^[1]
Kappa Delta Rho	1917–1972, 1985–2003	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[1]
Phi Delta Theta	1918–1968, 1973	Social fraternity	Active	^[1]
Theta Pi Delta	1923–1930	Social fraternity	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 13]}
Delta Pi Sigma	1927–1937	Social fraternity	Merge	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 14]}
Colgate Commons Club	1927–1960	Counter-culture fraternal organization	Inactive
Alpha Psi Omega	1928–May 2023	Honor society, theater	Inactive	^[13]
Sigma Chi	1930–1963, 1971–2015	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[1]
Tredecim Senior Honor Society.(previously Konosioni)	1934–20xx ?	Senior leadership society	Active	^[8]^[9]^{[lower-alpha 15]}
Phi Kappa Tau	1937–1971, 2007	Social fraternity	Active	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 16]}
Psi Chi	May 18, 1950	Honor society, psychology	Active	^[14]
Alpha Beta	1951–1956	Social fraternity	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 17]}
Tau Kappa Epsilon	1956–1972	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[1]
Alpha Chi Epsilon	1960–1964	Social fraternity	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 18]}
Beta Beta Beta	1971	Honor society, biology	Active	^[15]
Phi Tau	1971–20xx ?	Social fraternity, local	Inactive	^[1]
Delta Nu	1979–1981	Social sorority	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 19]}
Delta Sigma Upsilon	1980–1988	Social sorority, local	Inactive	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 20]}
Chi Omega Rho	1981–1990	Social fraternity, co-ed, local	Inactive	^[16]^[1]
Gamma Phi Beta	1982	Social sorority	Active	^[1]
Phi Eta Sigma	1982	First-year academic honor society	Active	^[17]
Phi Psi	1982–1992	Social fraternity, local	Inactive	^[1]
Alpha Theta Pi	1984–1988	Social sorority, local	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 21]}
Kappa Psi Lambda	1984–1986	Social sorority	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 22]}
Zeta Delta Pi	1985–1988	Social sorority	Merged	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 23]}
Pi Beta Phi	1986–1992	Social sorority	Inactive	^[1]
Kappa Alpha Theta	1988–2008	Social sorority	Inactive	^[1]^{[lower-alpha 24]}
Kappa Kappa Gamma	1988	Social sorority	Active	^[1]
Pi Beta Phi	1989–1992	Social sorority	Inactive	^[1]
Alpha Chi Omega	1988–1996	Social sorority	Inactive	^[1]
Delta Delta Delta	1996	Social sorority	Active	^[1]
Brothers of Colgate	1999	Social fraternity, local	Active	^[18]^[1]
Alpha Epsilon Pi	2005–2013	Social fraternity	Inactive	^[19]^[1]
Blue Diamond Society	2006	Social fraternity, local	Active	^[20]^[1]
Sorella Society	2008	Social sorority, local	Active	^[1]

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[3] Became Beta Theta Pi.

[5] Became Phi Kappa Psi.

[6] Became a chapter of Beta Theta Pi.

[7] Became a chapter of Phi Kappa Psi which, in turn, became Phi Psi.

[8] Became a chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.

[11] Became Phi Psi (local).

[13] Became Alpha Tau Omega.

[14] Became Sigma Alpha.

[Konosioni-18] Gorgon's Head and Skull and Scroll merged to form Konosioni.

[19] Became chapter of Phi Delta Theta.

[20] Became a chapter of Theta Chi.

[21] Chapter became Sigma Nu.

[25] Became a chapter of Sigma Chi.

[26] Became a chapter of Phi Kappa Tau.

[Tredecim-28] The Konosioni Senior Honor Society changed its name to Tredecim Senior Honor Society.

[Phi_Kappa_Tau-29] The Phi Kappa Tau chapter left and became Phi Tau (local) in 1971. It later reformed as a colony.

[31] Became a chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon.

[32] Was absorbed into Alpha Delta Phi, restarting its chapter at Colgate.

[34] Became a chapter of Gamma Phi Beta.

[35] Became a chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

[38] Became a chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta.

[39] Became a chapter of Pi Beta Phi.

[40] Became a chapter of Alpha Chi Omega.

[41] Became the local sorority Sorella.

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