Alpha Epsilon Phi 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. Alpha Epsilon Phi 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.
Alpha Epsilon Phi 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 Alpha Epsilon Phi in the Spring of 2006. Most recently in the Fall of 2008 Alpha Epsilon Phi was rechartered 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.
Alpha Epsilon Phi was created by women who were barred from joining a sorority on their campus based solely on their culture and religion. Because of this, Alpha Epsilon Phi embraces women of all walks of life, accepting women of many faiths, races, and cultures. Alpha Epsilon Phi is culturally-based and is not a religious sorority. 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. Alpha Epsilon Phi 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.
Alpha Epsilon Phi 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 Alpha Epsilon Phi in the Spring of 2006. Most recently in the Fall of 2008 Alpha Epsilon Phi was rechartered 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.
Alpha Epsilon Phi was created by women who were barred from joining a sorority on their campus based solely on their culture and religion. Because of this, Alpha Epsilon Phi embraces women of all walks of life, accepting women of many faiths, races, and cultures. Alpha Epsilon Phi is culturally-based and is not a religious sorority. It is this compassion, understanding, and acceptance that our chapter holds most dear.
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Famous Phis
Nicole "Colie" Edison
Epsilon Chapter, Tulane
Cast member on the eighteenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World: Denver Dinah Shore
Chi Chapter, Vanderbilt
Singer, actress, and talk show host Erica Hill
Alpha Chi Chapter, Boston University
CNN Anchor Lauren Weisberger
Kappa Chapter, Cornell
Author, The Devil Wears Prada Elizabeth Glaser
Sigma Chapter, University of Wisconsin
AIDS activist and co-founder of AEPhi's nationally supported phianthropy, The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation |      |
