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SigEp Firsts
Sigma Phi Epsilon can claim many innovations and achievements in the world of national fraternities. SigEp was first
- To charter a chapter in all 50 states.
- To provide financial assistance to brothers for graduate school through the Resident Scholar program.
- To establish a housing trust for all chapters and create a National Housing Corporation.
- To officially adopt a policy that removed sexual orientation as a means of discriminating against membership.
- To receive a grant from the federal Department of Education to enhance member development programs.
- To establish a traveling staff to assist chapters in effective operations.
- Fraternity whose Educational Foundation built an endowment greater than $11 million.
- To partner with the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy.
- IFC National Fraternity to issue a bid of membership to an African-American (future U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown)
- In the spring of 2005 Sigma Phi Epsilon also became the first national fraternity to have a national grade point average surpassing 3.0. Nationally, the fraternity has stated that it hopes to raise this to 3.15 by 2011
