National APIDA Panhellenic Association

The National APIDA Panhellenic Association is an umbrella council for twenty Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American fraternities and sororities in universities in the United States.

History

In the summer of 2004, nine fraternal organizations that served Asian and Pacific Islander students at US schools came together to form what was then called the APIA Greek Alliance, a partnership with APIA Vote aimed at registering voters in advance of the 2004 United States elections. These nine organizations were alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Iota Omicron, Delta Phi Lambda, Lambda Phi Epsilon, Kappa Phi Lambda, Nu Alpha Phi, Pi Alpha Phi, Pi Delta Psi, and Sigma Psi Zeta.
The success of this partnership led to additional collaboration. The AGA hosted the first-ever leadership summit in the summer of 2005 with support from OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates. By the end of this summit, the fraternities and sororities present formed the North American Greek Council which comprised seven organizations: alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Phi Gamma, Delta Phi Lambda, Pi Alpha Phi, Pi Delta Psi, Sigma Beta Rho, and Sigma Psi Zeta.
In 2006, the NAGC formalized its constitution and renamed itself to the National APIA Panhellenic Association or the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association and recognized the following nine organizations as charter members:
In 2017, the member organizations unanimously voted to add Desi to its formal name, a word describing people from the Indian subcontinent or South Asia, and in doing so adopted the acronym APIDA, to explicitly reflect their service of groups with South Asian membership. NAPA remains the preferred abbreviation. The organizations at the time were:
Pi Alpha Phi's membership was withdrawn in October 2023 when the fraternity closed its collegiate chapters.
NAPA has worked with peer organizations like NALFO, NMGC, NIC, NPC and NPHC on legislative issues. For example, in 2018 they successfully opposed legislation that would ban Greek life across all colleges and universities in Tennessee.

Membership requirements

APIDA requires that its members meet Fraternal Information and Programming Group guidelines in Risk management, hazing, and liability insurance. The decision to do so was made in 2006 with then-current groups allowed two years to meet these requirements.

Member organizations

The alphabetical list of NAPA member fraternities and sororities.

Organization	Symbols	Type	Date founded	Founding location	Chapters	Reference
alpha Kappa Delta Phi	αΚΔΦ	Sorority		University of California, Berkeley	63
Alpha Phi Gamma	ΑΦΓ	Sorority		California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	16
Alpha Sigma Rho	ΑΣΡ	Sorority		University of Georgia	10
Chi Sigma Tau	ΧΣΤ	Fraternity		University of Illinois at Chicago	9
Delta Epsilon Psi	ΔΕΨ	Fraternity		University of Texas at Austin	35
Delta Kappa Delta	ΔΚΔ	Sorority		Texas A&M University	15
Delta Phi Lambda	ΔΦΛ	Sorority		University of Georgia	24
Delta Phi Omega	ΔΦΩ	Sorority		University of Houston	49
Delta Sigma Iota	ΔΣΙ	Fraternity		Pennsylvania State University	8
Iota Nu Delta	ΙΝΔ	Fraternity		Binghamton University	30
Kappa Phi Gamma	ΚΦΓ	Sorority		University of Texas at Austin	19
Kappa Phi Lambda	ΚΦΛ	Sorority		Binghamton University	37
Kappa Pi Beta	ΚΠΒ	Fraternity		Northern Illinois University	5
Lambda Phi Epsilon	ΛΦΕ	Fraternity		University of California, Los Angeles	70
Pi Delta Psi	ΠΔΨ	Fraternity		Binghamton University	31
Sigma Beta Rho	ΣΒΡ	Fraternity		University of Pennsylvania	57
Sigma Psi Zeta	ΣΨΖ	Sorority		University at Albany	39
Sigma Sigma Rho	ΣΣΡ	Sorority		St. John's University	26

Former members of National APIDA or its predecessors

Organization	Symbols	Type	Date founded	Founding location	Chapters	Reference
Alpha Iota Omicron	ΑΙΩ	Fraternity		University of Michigan	6	-
Beta Chi Theta	ΒΧΘ	Fraternity		University of California, Los Angeles	29
Nu Alpha Phi	ΝΑΦ	Fraternity		State [University of New York at Albany]	9
Pi Alpha Phi	ΠΑΦ	Fraternity		University of California, Berkeley	28