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Of the 26 NPC sororities, interestingly no school has ever had a chapter of all of them.

According to my count, three universities have had all but one:

Illinois is missing Alpha Sigma Tau
Penn State is missing Alpha Sigma Tau
Syracuse is missing Sigma Sigma Sigma

Three more universities have had 24:

U.C.L.A. is missing Alpha Sigma Tau & Sigma Sigma Sigma
Indiana is missing Alpha Sigma Tau & Phi Sigma Sigma
Ohio State is missing Alpha Sigma Tau & Sigma Sigma Sigma

Penn State, Indiana & Illinois have the most currently active at 20, 19 & 18.

Am I missing any other school with a high percentage of groups, or have I missed a chapter anywhere?

Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting it!

WOW!

Oldu, I have compiled a list with all of the NPC ever on every campus that has ever had them. It is located here. You may enjoy looking at it.

Double wow!!! Your list represents a lot of work.

I found another two schools that have had all but three:

Miami (Ohio) - missing Delta Phi Epsilon, Phi Sigma Sigma & Theta Phi Alpha

Michigan - missing Alpha Sigma Alpha. Alpha Sigma Tau & Sigma Sigma Sigma

Wow! Irishpipes & oldu, I think y'all should collaborate, and put out an updated Baird's Manual! The last update was in 1991, if I remember properly.

:( Sad. But not surprising that it's AST and Tri Sig, as we're both sororities focused primarily on former teaching schools.

This is a really interesting thread! I noticed in irishpipes' linked thread that AST is at 2 of Penn State's branch campuses, so does that technically count to give us all 26? ;) (j/k, I know they're separate greek systems)

What blows my mind about that is the fact that Syracuse has had all the NPC groups but one there, and they only have 12 now. That means they've had 13 leave.

There may be others, but as far as I can recall, there are (at least) nine other national organizations that at one time belonged to the NPC. All of which either disbanded or merged with/were acquired by another NPC organization.

Alpha Delta Theta
Beta Phi Alpha
Beta Sigma Omicron
Delta Sigma Epsilon
Iota Alpha Pi
Phi Omega Theta
Pi Kappa Sigma
Theta Sigma Upsilon
Theta Upsilon

So if you were to add these nine to the current twenty-six NPC organizations, I wonder which campuses would have had the most chapters out of thirty-five (26 current NPCs plus 9 former NPCs).

Syracuse has issues.

TS - glad you brought this up because my next project is to add the former NPC chapters to my list!!

Über Wow!

Anyone with a Bairds would be appreciated!

I've got almost all of them. (1 to 4 and 10 to 20) I can do some checking if you'd like.


Anyone know the years for any of those 9 organizations. That would really help!

Acording to Baird's 20th ed., in 1991:

Alpha Delta Theta: 1919 - 1939 (entered NPC 1926)
Beta Phi Alpha: 1919 - 1941
Beta Sigma Omicron: 1888 - 1964
Delta Sigma Epsilon: 1914 - 1956
Phi Omega Pi: 1910 - 1946
Pi Kappa Sigma: 1894 - 1959
Theta Sigma Upsilon: 1921 - 1959
Theta Upsilon: 1914 - 1962

Goggle search came up with the following. As such, I can not vouch for the accuracy of the data.

Alpha Delta Theta
Founded 1919
Joined NPC 1926
Merged with/absorbed by Phi Mu in 1939

Beta Phi Alpha
Founded 1919
Joined NPC 1923
Merged with/absorbed by Delta Zeta in 1941

Beta Sigma Omicron
Founded 1888
Joined NPC ???
Merged with/absorbed by Zeta Tau Alpha in 1964

Delta Sigma Epsilon
Founded 1914
Joined NPC 1947 (associate member) 1951 (full)
Merged with/absorbed by Delta Zeta in 1956

Iota Alpha Pi
Founded 1903
Joined NPC ???
Disbanded in 1972

Phi Omega Theta
Founded 1910
Joined NPC 1933
Merged with/absorbed by Delta Zeta in 1946

Pi Kappa Sigma
Founded 1894
Joined NPC 1947 (associate member) 1951 (full)
Merged with/absorbed by Sigma Kappa in 1959

Theta Sigma Upsilon
Founded 1921
Joined NPC 1947 (associate member) 1951 (full)
Merged with/absorbed by Alpha Gamma Delta in 1959

Theta Upsilon
Founded 1914
Joined NPC ???
Merged with/absorbed by Delta Zeta in 1962

Beat me to it.

ETA: I think the reason I have earlier dates is becuase both Beta Phi Alpha and Theta Upsilon had some incarnations as "clubs" prior to becoming a sorority and taking on letters.

TSteven, you're right, of course. There's a lot of detail about some of the sororities founded at Berkeley in a thread started by oldu here in the Greek Life forum: "Delta Zeta at the University of California," I believe.

If you add the defunct groups to the list:

1 32 University of Illinois **
2 29 University of California, Los Angeles
Miami University
4 28 Ohio State University
5 27 Pennsylvania State University
Syracuse University
7 26 University of California, Berkley
Indiana University

** It could be 33 because Delta Sigma Epsilon had a colony at Illinois when the merger with Delta Zeta took place. I don't know if it was chartered first or was just absorbed in as pledges. Maybe someone can shed some light.

As a Penn State Alum, can I also add that we do not have currently
-Alpha Sigma Tau (except at PSU Altoona)
-Theta Phi Alpha (except at PSU Berks)
-Delta Phi Epsilon
-Phi Sigma Sigma
-Alpha Gamma Delta

I just graduated in May but, if you look at the Penn State NPC site you will notice it looks as though we have more NPCs because we allowed Alpha Phi Omega's sister sorority Omega Phi Alpha join us, along with Phi Sigma Rho (engineering sorority) and I think Gamma Sigma Sigma joined, as well. We used to have all of the above sororities at Penn State (I looked through some old yearbooks in our sorority suite and saw we did) but, because of low membership in some of them-they were dissolved on our campus....I would like to see all of them come back to Penn State (University Park), though.....we have too many chapters struggling (numbers wise) because only a small percentage of PSU is Greek (like 11% of the entire campus)....

Actually Indiana did have a chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma - I am not sure when, and they left before I got there (early 1990s) but they are on our Greek Walkway (which has a stone for every NIC/NPC/NPHC organization that has ever had a chapter at IU!)

Phi Sigma Sigma does not list a chapter ever at Indiana University, Bloomington. Perhaps it was a colony that did not survive to chartering. However, they do list charters at IU Southeast, South Bend & Kokomo. Perhaps a Phi Sig could enlighten us.

Hi irishpipes. I haven't forgotten you; besides the Beta Phi Alpha and Theta Upsilon chapter rolls that I've already PM'd to you, I'm working on the ones for Delta Sigma Epsilon and Phi Omega Pi. Those two may be a little on the "best I can do with the information I have" side, but I'm plugging away in Baird's editions and some other sources. Shouldn't be too long.