ABOUT US

Fraternity Location:
780 Spruce St.
Morgantown, WV 26505

304/ 292-0502 telephone
304/ 367-0574

Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity House
780 Spruce St. Morgantown , WV 26505

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Founded:

May 23, 1890; West Virginia University at Morgantown

Mission Statement

The mission of Phi Kappa Psi is to promote the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, and service for our members based upon the ideals set forth by our Founders and as specifically enunciated in our creed.

Membership

The Fraternity resides on 780 spruce st less than 2 minutes away from the university downtown campus. The current structure includes more than 8,200 undergraduates and more than 200 chapters in 48 states and Canada. Alumni are active in more than 75 alumni associations.

Phi Kappa Psi

The fraternity was established in 1852 and has initiated more than 100,000 members in 151 years.

West Virginia Alpha chapter has initiated more tnan 2,000 member. It was founded in 1890 and was the first fraternity at West Virginia University.

90 chapters and colonies represent Phi Kppa Psi throughout 34 states and the District of Columbia.

Currently we have over 4000 undergraduates and 60,000 living alumni.

Phi Kappa Psi was the first fraternity founded with the intent to expand across the nation and never merged with any other national fraternity.

Phi Kappa Psi established one of the first endowment funds in the nation and awards over $200,000 in scholarships each year to Phi Psi students. This is expected to increase each year due to the tremendous growth in our donor base, 6 years ago, this fund was $500,000. Today, it has increased to more than $10 million. Within the fraternity world, Phi Kappa Psi has gone from eighteenth in national ranking to number five. (Even more impressive, Phi Psi is only about $7 million away from number one ranking!)

Our four-year cost of membership is below the average for the National Men's Fraternities and includes benefits that ae not included in the fees of some other fraternites. Once initiated, there are no additional fees or dues required to remain in good standing as an alumus of the fraternity.

West Virginia Alpha Chapter at WVU has one of the few fraternity chapels in the nation. The Memorial Chapel was dedicated in 1952 in memory of our brothers who gave their lives during WWII. What began as a modest collection for a memorial plaque in their honor, turned into a tidal wave of donations by the alumni of WV Alpha. The chapel is used for many purposes including weekly meetings, committee meetings, prayer services, weddings and other special events. The memorial Chapel was rededicated in 2002, 150 years to the day after the founding of the national fraternity.

A Brief History of Phi Kappa Psi

Founded over 150 years ago, Phi Psi boasts a rich history at many of the nation's top colleges and universities.

William H. Letterman and Charles P.T. Moore founded Phi Kappa Psi in the little college town of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, when they were nursing their stricken friends during an epidemic of typhoid fever at their college. It was through these long night vigils that an appreciation of the great joy of serving others came into their lives.

Calling a number of others to join them, a Brotherhood was founded on February 19, 1852. It flourished, and gradually extended to other colleges and universities throughout the country. Idealists all, these founders of Phi Kappa Psi taught a new fraternity - a Fraternity that would complement the work of the university by cultivating those humanities without which the educated man fails of his greatest usefulness.

At the time of our founding, Jefferson College was considered one of the "Big Three" in what was known as the "Jeffersonian Cradle." The other two institutions comprising this group, Harvard and Princeton, were of very nearly equal size and equal high esteem. These institutions all graduated predominantly ministers, lawyers and physicians from an academic curricula based in classical literature, religious doctrine and basic sciences.

Phi Kappa Psi recognizes the need and value of the best and broadest education possible and encourages that goal within our membership. But unless actuated by a proper love for and service to mankind, the educated man may often waste his talents. It is to counteract this tendency that Phi Kappa Psi was founded to encourage the best in men, to inspire and assist them to reach their potential as students, brothers, men and citizens.