Sigma Beta Rho

Sigma Beta Rho Fraternity, Inc. is an American collegiate and national multicultural fraternity. Founded in 1996, it was the first national multicultural fraternity in the United States.

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History

Sigma Beta Rho was founded on, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as a South Asian interest fraternity. Its founders originally attended three different college campuses and came together to form the fraternity. The first eight members of the fraternity's are its national founding fathers: Russell Abdullah, Anuj Datta, Neil Datta, Rajan Dogra, Suman Ghosh, Shoor Kalam, Saiful Khandker, and Bonit Sharma.
Beta chapter was chartered at Binghamton University on August 22, 1998. That same year, the fraternity was incorporated in the State Department of New York. In its first few years of existence, Sigma Beta Rho changed its focus from a South-Asian interest fraternity to one with a multicultural mission. It promotes cultural awareness and spreads a positive image of diversity.
Sigma Beta Rho was a founding member of the National APIDA Panhellenic Association. Sigma Beta Rho member Akash Kuruvilla co-authored the original constitution of NAPA. The fraternity was also accepted into the North American Interfraternity Conference on April 15, 2007, as its 69th member organization.
Since 1998, Sigma Beta Rho has initiated over 3,000 members.

Symbols

The colors of Sigma Beta Rho are red, black, and green. Its symbol is the King Cobra. Its motto is "Brotherhood Beyond All Barriers". Its pillars are "Society, Brotherhood, Remembrance". Its nicknames are SBRho and SigRho.

Philanthropy

The fraternity’s national philanthropic focus is on its partnership with SOS Children's Villages. Local chapter efforts have supported Habitat for Humanity, Read Across America, and Relay for Life.

Organization

The national executive board is the governing body that presides over the nationwide fraternity. The fraternity's national headquarters is in New York City, New York.

Chapters

Sigma Beta Rho used the term "entities" for its colonies, associate chapters, and chapters. A colony is a new group, working meeting the requirements to charter as a chapter. A colony becomes an associate chapter after a certain amount of time and after meeting requirements for membership, finances, and community service. Associate chapters are chartered as a chapter after maintaining the requirements for an associate chapter for an established period of time.
In the following list, active chapters indicated in bold and inactive chapters are in italics.

Chapter	Charter date and range	Institution	Location	Status
Alpha	– 20xx ?	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Inactive
Beta	– 20xx ?	Binghamton University	Binghamton, New York	Inactive
Gamma	– 20xx ?	St. John's University	Queens, New York	Inactive
Delta	–20xx ?	Hofstra University	Hempstead, New York	Inactive
Epsilon	– 20xx ?	Pace University	New York City, New York	Inactive
Zeta	– July 2020	Stony Brook University	Stony Brook, New York	Inactive
Eta	– 20xx ?	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts	Inactive
Theta		Rutgers University	New Brunswick, New Jersey	Active
Iota	– 20xx ?	University of Washington	Seattle, Washington	Active
Kappa	– 20xx ?	University of Rochester	Rochester, New York	Inactive
Lambda	– 20xx ?	Virginia Commonwealth University	Richmond, Virginia	Inactive
Mu		University of South Florida	Tampa, Florida	Active
Nu		University of Georgia	Athens, Georgia	Active
Xi	– 20xx ?	University of Maryland, College Park	College Park, Maryland	Inactive
Omicron	– 20xx ?	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Catonsville, Maryland	Inactive
Pi	– 2019	University of Florida	Gainesville, Florida	Inactive
Rho		Temple University	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Inactive
Sigma		Georgia Tech	Atlanta, Georgia	Active
Tau	– 20xx ?	University of Houston	Houston, Texas	Inactive
Upsilon		Drexel University	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Active
Phi	– c. 2022	University of the Sciences	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Inactive
Chi				Unassigned
Psi	– 20xx ?	Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University	Daytona Beach, Florida	Inactive
Omega				Unassigned
Alpha Alpha		Florida State University	Tallahassee, Florida	Active
Alpha Beta		Northeastern University	Boston, Massachusetts	Active
Alpha Gamma		Oregon State University	Corvallis, Oregon	Inactive
Alpha Delta		University of Tennessee	Knoxville, Tennessee	Active
Alpha Epsilon		University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	Champaign, Illinois	Active
Alpha Zeta	– 202x ?	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Inactive
Alpha Eta	2018	University of Massachusetts-Lowell	Lowell, Massachusetts	Inactive
Alpha Theta		University of North Florida	Jacksonville, Florida	Active
Alpha Iota	201x ?	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Newark, New Jersey	Active
Alpha Kappa	201x ?	Rutgers University–Newark	Newark, New Jersey	Active
Alpha Lambda		Emory University	Atlanta, Georgia	Active
Alpha Mu	20xx ? – 202x ?	Stockton University	Galloway, New Jersey	Inactive
Alpha Nu	20xx ?	Syracuse University	Syracuse, New York	Active
		Boston University	Boston, Massachusetts	Colony
		Indiana University Bloomington	Bloomington, Indiana	Associate
		Kennesaw State University	Cobb County, Georgia	Colony
		Long Island University	Brooklyn, New York	Colony
		Michigan State University	East Lansing, Michigan	Colony
		Rowan University	Glassboro, New Jersey	Colony
		University at Albany, SUNY	Albany, New York	Colony
		University at Buffalo	Buffalo, New York	Colony
		University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, Michigan	Colony
		Wayne State University	Detroit, Michigan	Associate