Phi Kappa Tau
| Phi Kappa Tau | |
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| ΦΚΤ | |
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| Founded | March 17, 1906 Miami University, (Oxford, Ohio) |
| Type | Social |
| Scope | National |
| Mission statement | "To champion a lifelong commitment to brotherhood, learning, ethical leadership and exemplary character." |
| Vision statement | "To be recognized as a leadership organization that binds men together and challenges them to improve their campuses and the world." |
| Colors | Harvard Red and Old Gold |
| Flower | Red carnation |
| Publication | The Laurel of Phi Kappa Tau |
| Philanthropy | SeriousFun Network |
| Chapters | 157 Chartered, 90 Active, 6 Colonies |
| Members | 4,700 collegiate 96,000 lifetime |
| Nickname | Phi Tau |
| Headquarters |
5221 Morning Sun Road Oxford, Ohio USA |
| Homepage | www |
Phi Kappa Tau (ΦΚΤ), commonly known as Phi Tau, is a collegiate fraternity located in the United States. The fraternity was founded in 1906. As of January 2017, the fraternity has 157 Chartered Chapters, 90 active chapters, and around 4,700 collegiate members.SeriousFun Children's Network, founded by Beta Chapter alumnus Paul Newman, is Phi Kappa Tau's National Philanthropy. According to its Constitution, Phi Kappa Tau is one of the few social fraternities that can accept graduate students as well as undergraduates.
Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity (commonly called ) was founded in the Union Literary Society Hall of Miami University's Old Main Building in Oxford, Ohio, on March 17, 1906. The four honored founders were Taylor A. Borradaile, Clinton D. Boyd, Dwight I. Douglass, and William H. Shideler.
The fraternity was founded as the non-Fraternity Association to give Miami's non-fraternity men a voice in campus political affairs. The name was changed to Phrenocon on March 6, 1909. The two proposed names were the "Miami Friends" and the "Miami Comrades", which were combined to form "Frenocom". "Phrenocon" was actually an alternate spelling of "Frenocom", the idea being to make the name sound more Greek.
Phrenocon became "national" in 1911 when an organization of independent men known as the Ohio University Union chose to become the Ohio University chapter of Phrenocon. Additional Phrenocon chapters were established at Ohio State University, Centre College, Mount Union College and the University of Illinois. At Miami, Phrenocon began to have difficulty retaining members by the early 1910s. Often, men would join Phrenocon, then later withdraw their membership and join Greek-letter fraternities. In fact, the Miami chapters of Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon were founded by Phrenocon members. For that reason, the Miami Chapter of Phrenocon withdrew from the National Phrenocon and adopted the name Phi Kappa Tau on March 9, 1916. Since 1919, Phi Kappa Tau has published a magazine, The Laurel. Previously, the magazine was known as Sidelights. The rest of the chapters agreed to the name change on December 21 of that year and invited Miami to return to the national organization as the Alpha chapter of Phi Kappa Tau. Eta Chapter at Muhlenberg College was the first chapter to charter after the change to Phi Kappa Tau.
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