The National APIDA Panhellenic Association (NAPA) is an umbrella council for twenty Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American fraternities and sororities (Greek Letter organizations) in universities in the United States.[1]
Abbreviation | NAPA |
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Founded | 2005 |
Type | Trade association |
Location | |
Membership | 20 Organizations |
Website | www.napahq.org |
In the summer of 2004, 9 fraternal organizations which served Asian and Pacific Islander students at US schools came together to form what was then called the APIA Greek Alliance (AGA), a partnership with APIA Vote aimed at registering voters in advance of the 2004 United States elections. These nine organizations were alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Iota Omicron, Delta Phi Lambda, Lambda Phi Epsilon, Kappa Phi Lambda, Nu Alpha Phi, Pi Alpha Phi, Pi Delta Psi, and Sigma Psi Zeta.[2]
The success of this partnership led to additional collaboration. The AGA hosted the first ever leadership summit in the summer of 2005 with support from OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates. By the end of this summit, the fraternities and sororities present formed the North American Greek Council (NAGC) which comprised the following seven organizations: alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Phi Gamma, Delta Phi Lambda, Pi Alpha Phi, Pi Delta Psi, Sigma Beta Rho, and Sigma Psi Zeta.
In 2006, the NAGC formalized its constitution and renamed itself to the National APIA Panhellenic Association or National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association (NAPA) and recognized the following 9 organization as charter members: alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Phi Gamma, Delta Phi Lambda, Delta Kappa Delta, Kappa Phi Lambda, Pi Alpha Phi, Pi Delta Psi, Sigma Beta Rho and Sigma Psi Zeta.[3][4]
In 2017, the member organizations unanimously voted to add Desi to its formal name, a word describing people from the Indian subcontinent or South Asia, and in doing so adopted the acronym APIDA, to explicitly reflect their service of groups with South Asian membership. NAPA remains the preferred abbreviation.[5] The organizations at the time were alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Phi Gamma, Beta Chi Theta , Chi Sigma Tau, Delta Epsilon Psi, Delta Phi Lambda, Delta Kappa Delta, Delta Phi Omega, Delta Sigma Iota, Iota Nu Delta, Kappa Phi Gamma, Kappa Phi Lambda, Lambda Phi Epsilon, Pi Alpha Phi, Pi Delta Psi, Sigma Beta Rho, Sigma Psi Zeta, and Sigma Sigma Rho. Pi Alpha Phi's membership was withdrawn in October 2023 when the fraternity closed its collegiate chapters.[6]
NAPA has worked with peer organizations like NALFO, NMGC, NIC, NPC and NPHC on legislative issues. For example, in 2018 they successfully opposed legislation that would ban Greek life across all colleges and universities in Tennessee.[7]
APIDA requires that its members (organizations) meet Fraternal Information and Programming Group (FIPG) guidelines in Risk management, hazing, and liability insurance. They decision to do so was made in 2006 with then-current groups allowed two years to meet these requirements.[8]
The alphabetical list of NAPA member fraternities and sororities. [9][10]
Organization Name | Greek Letters | Chapters | Date Founded | Place Founded | Notes |
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alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority | αΚΔΦ | 63 | February 7, 1990 | University of California, Berkeley | [11] |
Alpha Phi Gamma sorority | ΑΦΓ | 16 | February 1, 1994 | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | |
Alpha Sigma Rho sorority | ΑΣΡ | 10 | April 2, 1998 | University of Georgia | |
Chi Sigma Tau fraternity | ΧΣΤ | 9 | September 9, 1999 | University of Illinois at Chicago | |
Delta Epsilon Psi fraternity | ΔΕΨ | 35 | October 1, 1998 | University of Texas at Austin | |
Delta Kappa Delta sorority | ΔΚΔ | 15 | October 1, 1999 | Texas A&M University | |
Delta Phi Lambda sorority | ΔΦΛ | 24 | December 5, 1998 | University of Georgia | |
Delta Phi Omega sorority | ΔΦΩ | 49 | December 6, 1998 | University of Houston | |
Delta Sigma Iota fraternity | ΔΣΙ | 8 | August 15, 2000 | Pennsylvania State University | |
Iota Nu Delta fraternity | ΙΝΔ | 30 | February 7, 1994 | Binghamton University | |
Kappa Phi Gamma sorority | ΚΦΓ | 19 | November 8, 1998 | University of Texas at Austin | |
Kappa Phi Lambda sorority | ΚΦΛ | 37 | March 9, 1995 | Binghamton University | |
Kappa Pi Beta fraternity | ΚΠΒ | 5 | March 16, 2000 | Northern Illinois University | |
Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity | ΛΦΕ | 70 | February 25, 1981 | University of California, Los Angeles | |
Pi Delta Psi fraternity | ΠΔΨ | 31 | February 20, 1994 | Binghamton University | |
Sigma Beta Rho fraternity | ΣΒΡ | 57 | August 16, 1996 | University of Pennsylvania | |
Sigma Psi Zeta sorority | ΣΨΖ | 39 | March 23, 1994 | University at Albany | |
Sigma Sigma Rho sorority | ΣΣΡ | 26 | December 10, 1998 | St. John's University |
Organization Name | Greek Letters | Chapters | Date Founded | Place Founded | Notes |
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Alpha Iota Omicron fraternity | ΑΙΩ | 6 | October 16, 1998 | University of Michigan | |
Beta Chi Theta fraternity | ΒΧΘ | 29 | June 2, 1999 | University of California, Los Angeles | |
Nu Alpha Phi fraternity | ΝΑΦ | 9 | March 18, 1994 | State University of New York at Albany | |
Pi Alpha Phi fraternity | ΠΑΦ | 28 | February 1, 1929 | University of California, Berkeley |