Alpha Phi International Fraternity is a membership organization dedicated to promoting sisterhood, cultivating leadership, encouraging intellectual curiosity and advocating service. Alpha Phi develops character for a lifetime.

• 1886: Alpha Phi became the first women’s fraternity in America to build and occupy its own chapter house
• 1888: The Alpha Phi Quarterly, an award-winning magazine, was established and has been published continuously to the present day.
• 1894: Alpha Phi became the first women’s fraternity to use “traveling delegates,” now known as Educational Leadership Consultants (ELCs)
• 1902: Alpha Phi called the inter-sorority meeting that resulted in the formation of the association now known as the National Panhellenic Conference, which was the first intergroup organization on college campuses.
• 1905: Frances Willard was recognized by the U.S. Congress who placed a statue of her in Statuary Hall in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, the first woman to be so recognized.
• 1906: Alpha Phi became “International” fraternity when Xi chapter was chartered at the University of Toronto
• 1940: Frances Willard was portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
• 1995: Alpha Phi became the first NPC international/national member to have a site on the World Wide Web