Alpha Iota Omicron

Alpha Iota Omicron is a South Asian interest and multicultural collegiate fraternity located in the United States. It was established at University of Michigan in 1998 and has chartered ten chapters in the United States and Canada. Alpha Iota Omicron was a founding member of the APIA Greek Alliance, the former name of the National APIDA Panhellenic Association

History

Alpha Iota Omicron was founded on October 16, 1998, at the University of Michigan as a South Asian interest fraternity by eighteen students. It was the first South Asian fraternity in the United States and was part of a movement in the late 1990s of creating Greek letter organizations as cultural epicenters for South Asians. Its founding fathers were:
The fraternity was built on the core principles or pillars of Brotherhood, Networking, Community Service, and Cultural Competence. Over the years, Alpha Iota Omicron has expanded nationally, chartering ten chapters across the United States and Canada.
One of the fraternity's activities is participating in step shows. Members of the Alpha chapter performed their first step show at the Indian American Student Association Cultural Show in October 2000. A member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity helped to train the dancers. However, Alpha Iota Omicron's step dancing varies from traditional African American fraternities by including movements from South Asian dances.
Alpha Iota Omicron was a founding member of the APIA Greek Alliance, the former name of the National APIDA Panhellenic Association.

Symbols

Alpha Iota Omicron's motto is Sic Parvis Magna. Its colors are black, blue, and silver. The fraternity’s mascot is the wolf. Its nickname is AIO.

Chapters

In the following list, active chapters and colonies are listed in bold and inactive chapters are in italics.

Chapter	Charter date and range	Institution	Location	Status
Alpha	– 202x ?	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, Michigan	Inactive
Beta	2002–2023	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Champaign, Illinois	Inactive
Gamma	2005–202x ?	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Georgia	Inactive
Delta	– 202x ?	Georgia State University	Atlanta, Georgia	Inactive
Epsilon	2006–20xx ?	Northwestern University	Evanston, Illinois	Inactive
Zeta	2012	Saint Louis University	St. Louis, Missouri	Active
Eta	201x ?–20xx ?	University of Toronto	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Inactive
Theta			Chicago, Illinois	Colony
Iota			Santa Cruz, California	Colony
Kappa		University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, California	Inactive
Lambda		Rutgers University–New Brunswick	New Brunswick, New Jersey	Colony