Beta Facts

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Initiated Betas: 165,000
Living Betas: 114,000
Undergraduate membership with pledges: 6,200
Chapters: 128
Colonies/recolonizations: 8 (Oregon State, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Connecticut, St. Louis, West Chester, Central Florida, Washington State, William and Mary)
Scholarships awarded by Beta Theta Pi Foundation this year: 82
Convention: Miami University, Oxford, Ohio - July 26-29, 2001
Administrative Office: Oxford, Ohio. Completed October 1994. 17,000 sq. ft.; occupied by 30 full and part-time staff, including education consultants. Cost $2.9 million, including eight acres of land, building, furnishings and equipment.

Beta Firsts:

First College founded west of the Allegheny Mountains. (August 8, 1839)
First and oldest continously published Fraternity Magazine. (1872)
First Fraternity to publish an open constitution for public distribution. (1879)
First Fraternity in 13 states-more than any other Fraternity.
First Fraternity established on more than 35 campuses-more than any other Fraternity.
First Fraternity to establish a chapter west of the Mississippi River. (1866)
First Fraternity to adopt an expansion view.
First to break into districts for administrative purposes.(1873)
First Fraternity to have general officers.(1872)
First Fraternity to create Alumni chapters. (1867)
First Fraternity to have a General Convention and one of few to have annual Conventions.
First to host an Interfraternity event and meeting.
First to require chapters to keep informed of each other.
First Fraternity to adopt a 2.5 minimum for each chapter.(1984)
First Fraternity to adopt a 2.5 minimum for each member (1997)