Professional Fraternity Association
The Professional Fraternity Association is an American association of national, collegiate, professional fraternities and sororities that was formed in. Since PFA groups are discipline-specific, members join while pursuing graduate degrees as well as undergraduate 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, for women's groups, was founded in, and the Professional Interfraternity Conference, for men's groups, was founded in. These groups came about due to rapid growth among all types of fraternities during the late 1920s.Professional Panhellenic Association
On, 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, Kappa Beta Pi, Omicron Nu, Phi Beta, Phi Delta Pi, Phi Chi Theta, Phi Delta Delta, Phi Upsilon Omicron, Pi Lambda Theta, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Theta Sigma Phi. Two additional fraternities, Sigma Alpha Iota and Iota Sigma Pi, soon ratified the constitution. The resulting thirteen member groups participated in the second annual conference on. Originally known as Women's Professional Panhellenic Association until, when the revised name was adopted.Professional Interfraternity Conference
On March 2–3, 1928, delegates from 27 professional fraternities came together in Washington, DC to organize the PIC. 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
- Accounting: Beta Alpha Psi
- Advertising: Alpha Delta Sigma
- Architecture: Alpha Rho Chi
- Chemistry: Alpha Chi Sigma
- Commerce: Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi
- Dentistry: Alpha Omega, Psi Omega
- Education: Kappa Phi Kappa
- Engineering: Kappa Eta Kappa, Theta Tau
- Forensic: Phi Delta Gamma
- General: Omicron Delta Kappa
- Law: Delta Theta Phi, Gamma Eta Gamma, Phi Alpha Delta, Phi Beta Gamma, Sigma Nu Phi
- Medicine: Omega Upsilon Phi, Phi Beta Pi, Phi Rho Sigma, Theta Kappa Psi
- Pharmacy: Kappa Psi, Phi Delta Chi
- Military: Scabbard and Blade
- Science: Chi Beta Phi
Professional Fraternity Association
Chartering organizations:
- Alpha Delta Theta – Medical Technology
- Alpha Kappa Psi – Business Administration
- Alpha Rho Chi – Architecture
- Alpha Tau Delta – Nursing
- Alpha Chi Sigma – Chemistry
- Alpha Omega – Dentistry
- Delta Theta Phi – Law
- Delta Omicron – Music
- Delta Sigma Delta – Dentistry
- Delta Sigma Pi – Business Administration
- Delta Psi Kappa – Physical Education
- Zeta Phi Eta – Communication Arts and Sciences
- Kappa Beta Pi – Law
- Kappa Delta Epsilon – Education
- Kappa Epsilon – Pharmacy
- Kappa Psi – Pharmacy
- Lambda Kappa Sigma – Pharmacy
- Mu Phi Epsilon – Music
- Xi Psi Phi – Dentistry
- Rho Pi Phi – Pharmacy
- Sigma Alpha Iota – Music
- Sigma Delta Kappa – Law
- Sigma Phi Delta – Engineering
- Phi Alpha Delta – Law
- Phi Beta – Music, Speech, Drama and Dance
- Phi Beta Pi-Theta Kappa Psi – Medical
- Phi Gamma Nu – Business
- Phi Delta Epsilon – Medical
- Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia – Music
- Phi Rho Sigma – Medicine
- Phi Chi – Medicine
- Phi Chi Theta – Business and Economics
- Psi Omega – Dentistry
- Omega Tau Sigma – Veterinary Medicine
Current members
| Fraternity | Greek letters | Founded | Focus | Active collegiate groups | Collegiate charters granted | Initiates | PIC | PPA | PFA | Notes |
| Alpha Zeta | ΑΖ | Agriculture | 30 | 116,000 | Y | N | Y | Joined PIC prior to 1950 | ||
| Alpha Kappa Psi | ΑΚΨ | Business | 216 | 326 | 259,000 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer, PFA Charterer | |
| Alpha Rho Chi | ΑΡΧ | Architecture | 33 | 43 | 5,500 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer, PFA Charterer | |
| Alpha Phi Omega | ΑΦΩ | Service | 369 | 733 | 500,000 | N | N | Y | ||
| Alpha Chi Sigma | ΑΧΣ | Chemistry | 49 | 97 | 65,000 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer, PFA Charterer | |
| Alpha Omega Epsilon | ΑΩΕ | Engineering | 47 | 51 | 12,000 | N | N | Y | ||
| Delta Chi Xi | ΔΧΞ | Dance | 7 | 8 | N | N | Y | |||
| Delta Epsilon Mu | ΔΕΜ | Pre-health | 34 | 39 | N | N | Y | |||
| Delta Theta Phi | ΔΘΦ | Law | 150 | 125,000 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer, Not member in 1933, PFA Charterer | ||
| Delta Kappa Alpha | ΔΚΑ | Cinema | 12 | 9,000 | N | N | Y | |||
| Delta Omicron | ΔΟ | Music | 37 | 129 | 27,000 | N | Y | Y | PPA Charterer, PFA Charterer | |
| Delta Sigma Pi | ΔΣΠ | Business | 223 | 293 | 270,000 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer, PFA Charterer | |
| Delta Sigma Chi | ΔΣΧ | Chiropractic | 10 | N | N | Y | Joined 2016-2019 | |||
| Epsilon Nu Tau | ΕΝΤ | Entrepreneurship | 10 | N | N | Y | Joined 2015 | |||
| Theta Tau | ΘΤ | Engineering | 50 | 58 | 30,000 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer, member of PIC in 1968 | |
| Kappa Epsilon | ΚΕ | Pharmacy | 43 | 24,400 | N | Y | Y | Joined PPA March 23, 1951, Member of PPA in 1968, PFA Charterer | ||
| Kappa Eta Kappa | ΚΗΚ | Electrical engineering | 3 | 9 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer | ||
| Kappa Epsilon Psi | ΚΕΨ | Military | 31 | N | N | Y | Joined 2016-2019 | |||
| Kappa Kappa Psi | ΚΚΨ | Band | 196 | 313 | 66,000 | N | Y | |||
| Kappa Lambda Chi | ΚΛΧ | Military | 26 | N | N | Y | Joined 2016-2019 | |||
| Kappa Psi | ΚΨ | Pharmacy | 75 | 125 | 80,000 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer, PFA Charterer | |
| Lambda Kappa Sigma | ΛΚΣ | Pharmacy | 31 | 30,000 | N | Y | Y | Joined PPA in, Member of PPA in 1968, PFA Charterer | ||
| Mu Beta Phi | ΜΒΦ | Military | 21 | 500 | N | N | Y | Joined 2016-2019 | ||
| Mu Phi Epsilon | ΜΦΕ | Music | 227 | 75,000 | N | Y | Y | Member of PPA in 1953, Member of PPA in 1968, PFA Charterer | ||
| Pi Sigma Epsilon | ΠΣΕ | Marketing | 58 | 60,000 | N | Y | ||||
| Rho Pi Phi | ΡΠΦ | Pharmacy | 8 | 10,000 | Y | N | Y | Joined PIC in 1949, not a member in 1957, Member of PIC in 1968, PFA Charterer | ||
| Sigma Alpha | ΣΑ | Agriculture | 68 | 4,000 | N | N | Y | |||
| Sigma Alpha Iota | ΣΑΙ | Music | 220 | 105,376 | N | Y | Y | PPA Charterer, PFA Charterer | ||
| Tau Beta Sigma | ΤΒΣ | Band | 123 | 239 | 21,000 | N | Y | |||
| Phi Alpha Delta | ΦΑΔ | Law | 717 | 260,000 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer, Not member of PIC in 1933, member in 1950, PFA Charterer | ||
| Phi Beta | ΦΒ | Creative and performing arts | 3 | 55 | 30,000 | N | Y | Y | PPA Charterer, PFA Charterer | |
| Phi Gamma Nu | ΦΓΝ | Business | 10 | 115 | 35,000 | N | Y | Y | Joined PPA in Early 1937. Member of PPA in 1940, Member of PPA in 1953, Member of PPA in 1968, PFA Charterer. Rejoined in 2013. | |
| Phi Delta Epsilon | ΦΔΕ | Medicine | 182 | 33,000 | Y | N | Y | Joined PIC in, member of PIC in, PFA Charterer | ||
| Phi Delta Chi | ΦΔΧ | Pharmacy | 103 | 43,000 | Y | N | Y | PIC Charterer, member of PIC in 1968 | ||
| Phi Sigma Pi | ΦΣΠ | Honors | 135 | 31,000 | Y | N | Y | Joined PIC in | ||
| Phi Chi Theta | ΦΧΘ | Business | 44 | 47,000 | N | Y | Y | PPA Charterer, PFA Charterer | ||
| Hoo-Hoo International | Hoo-Hoos | Agriculture | 51 | 283 | N | N | Y | Affiliate Joined 2016-2019 |