History
Fast Facts
- Founding date: June 1st, 1847
- Founders: John Bradt Yates Sommers, John Moon Skillman, and William Henry Dayton
- Founding chapter: Phi chapter, New York University
- For a list of all active/inactive chapters, please visit the chapter list
Some Zeta Psi “Firsts”
- Zeta Psi was the first collegiate fraternity to establish a chapter on the West Coast of the United States with its Iota Chapter at the University of California, Berkeley (1870)
- The first to establish a chapter in Canada with the Theta Xi chapter at the University of Toronto (1879)
- The first to have an active chapter at all Ivy League schools simultaneously
- The first to establish a chapter outside of North America with its Iota Omicron Chapter at the University of Oxford (2008)
- The first International Fraternity to initiate a Colony virtually. At George Mason University(2020)