AEPhi was founded by seven Jewish women at Barnard College in New York on October 24, 1909. Our founding mothers had a dream of forming a sorority where exceptional women of all backgrounds, religions, interests and varying beliefs would be welcomed with open arms. This sorority would endeavor to foster lifelong friendship and sisterhood, academics, social involvement and community service, all the while providing a home away from home for its members.
The dream that was born in a dorm room at Barnard College in 1909 continues to succeed, prosper and thrive on over 60 college and university campuses nationwide. AEPhi welcomes with open arms hundreds of new members each year and seeks not only to live up to the ideals and goals of its original founders, but also to exceed them.
AEPhi at SDSU had its humble beginnings in 2001 as a local Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi sorority founded by eight Jewish friends. In 2003, the women decided to change their name to Alpha Epsilon, endeavoring to become a chapter of Alpha Epsilon Phi. Finally, after much success as a local chapter, the sorority was colonized by AEPhi in the spring of 2006. Most recently in the fall of 2008 Alpha Epsilon Phi was recharted as the Epsilon Nu chapter, and we are excited to be part of the expanding Panhellenic community at SDSU and to the rapidly growing AEPhi legacy nationwide.
AEPhi was created by women who were barred from joining a sorority on their campus based solely on their culture and religion. Because of this, AEPhi embraces women of all walks of life, accepting women of many faiths, races, and cultures. AEPhi is culturally-based and is not a religious sorority. Although, in our short time at SDSU we have been traditionally Jewish, we have expanded over the past two years and have many members who are not Jewish. It is this compassion, understanding, and acceptance that our chapter holds most dear.
The dream that was born in a dorm room at Barnard College in 1909 continues to succeed, prosper and thrive on over 60 college and university campuses nationwide. AEPhi welcomes with open arms hundreds of new members each year and seeks not only to live up to the ideals and goals of its original founders, but also to exceed them.
AEPhi at SDSU had its humble beginnings in 2001 as a local Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi sorority founded by eight Jewish friends. In 2003, the women decided to change their name to Alpha Epsilon, endeavoring to become a chapter of Alpha Epsilon Phi. Finally, after much success as a local chapter, the sorority was colonized by AEPhi in the spring of 2006. Most recently in the fall of 2008 Alpha Epsilon Phi was recharted as the Epsilon Nu chapter, and we are excited to be part of the expanding Panhellenic community at SDSU and to the rapidly growing AEPhi legacy nationwide.
AEPhi was created by women who were barred from joining a sorority on their campus based solely on their culture and religion. Because of this, AEPhi embraces women of all walks of life, accepting women of many faiths, races, and cultures. AEPhi is culturally-based and is not a religious sorority. Although, in our short time at SDSU we have been traditionally Jewish, we have expanded over the past two years and have many members who are not Jewish. It is this compassion, understanding, and acceptance that our chapter holds most dear.