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Professional Fraternity Association

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The Professional Fraternity Association (PFA) is an American association of national, collegiate, professional fraternities and sororities that was formed in 1978. Since PFA groups are discipline-specific, members join while pursuing graduate (law, medicine, etc.) degrees as well as undergraduate (business, engineering, etc.) degrees. PFA groups seek to develop their members professionally in addition to the social development commonly associated with Panhellenic fraternities. Membership requirements of the PFA are broad enough to include groups that do not recruit new members from a single professional discipline. The PFA has welcomed service and honor fraternities as members; however, Greek letter honor societies more commonly belong to the Association of College Honor Societies.

History

The Professional Panhellenic Association (PPA), for women's groups, was founded in 1925, and the Professional Interfraternity Conference (PIC), for men's groups, was founded in 1928. These groups came about due to rapid growth among all types of fraternities during the late 1920s.

Professional Panhellenic Association

On June 26, 1925, representatives from fourteen professional fraternities for women attended an organizational meeting in Washington, D.C. During the summer a provisional constitution was ratified by the following eleven fraternities: Delta Omicron (music), Kappa Beta Pi (law), Omicron Nu (home economics), Phi Beta (music and speech), Phi Delta Pi (physical education), Phi Chi Theta (commerce), Phi Delta Delta (law), Phi Upsilon Omicron (home economics), Pi Lambda Theta (education), Sigma Sigma Sigma (education), and Theta Sigma Phi (journalism). Two additional fraternities, Sigma Alpha Iota (music) and Iota Sigma Pi (chemistry), soon ratified the constitution. The resulting thirteen member groups participated in the second annual conference on November 26, 1926.[1]: 14  Originally known as Women's Professional Panhellenic Association until 1941, when the revised name was adopted.[1]: 14 

Professional Interfraternity Conference

On March 2–3, 1928, delegates from 27 professional fraternities came together in Washington, DC to organize the PIC.[2] Jarvis Butler of Sigma Nu Phi was elected as the first president, and Stroud Jordan of Alpha Chi Sigma was elected as the first Secretary-treasurer.

Groups represented were[1]: 13 [3][4]

Professional Fraternity Association

The PFA resulted from the merger of the Professional Interfraternity Conference and the Professional Panhellenic Association in 1978. The merger itself was the result of the impact of Title IX on most fraternal groups with professional affiliations.[5]

Chartering organizations:

Current members

Current membership of active members as of June 25, 2019.[6]

Former members

This includes the member organizations of the two former groups (PIC, PPA) that merged to form the PFA and organizations not currently active within the PFA.[6][23][24]

Notes

References

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  13. ^ a b Fall 2015 PFA today
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  22. ^ The DePaulia March 4, 1938
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  24. ^ "PFA Board Meeting Minutes September 2015" (Word Document). Archived from the original on 29 July 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
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  28. ^ "400 Dentists Attended Alpha Omega Convention". The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. 12 January 1973. p. 2.
  29. ^ "Alpha Omega". The Fraternity Month. Vol. 10, no. 3. 1943. p. 37.
  30. ^ Estelle Gilman (1 October 1946). "Affiliated Organizations: VIII. Delta Psi Kappa". The Journal of Health and Physical Education. 17 (8): 482–502. doi:10.1080/23267240.1946.10627356.
  31. ^ "Phi Chi Theta Bylaws August 2016" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  32. ^ "Phi Chi Theta Bylaws - August 2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
  33. ^ Theta Sigma Phi. Nu Chapter papers at University of Minnesota
  34. ^ a b c 1931 Docket yearbook p 243
  35. ^ History of the Founding of Omicron Nu
  36. ^ “A BRIEF CHRONICLE OF THE BIENNIAL COUNCIL.” Pi Lambda Theta Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1933, pp. 3–4. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42915168
  37. ^ "Alpha Omega". The Fraternity Month. Vol. 3, no. 3. 1935. p. 37.
  38. ^ "The Literary Scroll Vol 2 No 2 (February 1929)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  39. ^ Josephine Christaldi (1 December 1946). "Affiliated Organizations: X. Phi Delta Pi". The Journal of Health and Physical Education. 17 (10): 598–639. doi:10.1080/23267240.1946.10626724.
  40. ^ Wilbur C. DeTurk; Fred E. Foertsch (1 January 1947). "Affiliated Organizations: XI. Phi Epsilon Kappa Fraternity". The Journal of Health and Physical Education. 18 (1): 11–42. doi:10.1080/23267240.1947.10625216.
  41. ^ "Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Withdraws from Professional Fraternity Association". sinfonia.org. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
  42. ^ About Us | The National Society of Scabbard and Blade indicates in 1904-1905 school year
  43. ^ Present in "The DELTASIG of Delta Sigma Pi" (PDF). The DELTASIG of Delta Sigma Pi. Vol. XXX, no. 1. November 1937.but not "The DELTASIG of Delta Sigma Pi" (PDF). The DELTASIG of Delta Sigma Pi. Vol. XXX, no. 2. January 1938.
  44. ^ The Archi of Alpha Rho Chi V IX, No. 7 April 30, 1928, p1

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