ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC.?
You may have seen television shows, movies, and other media portrayals of Alpha members at parties and participating in step shows wearing the Fraternity colors and symbols. You may have also attended parties and step shows on your campus and in the community. While these activities are a fun and entertaining part of the fraternal experience, this is not the purpose of Alpha Phi Alpha. If you are interested in joining a Fraternity solely for those reasons, then Alpha Phi Alpha is not the right Fraternity for you.
Alpha Phi Alpha considers for membership the most intelligent, well rounded, and talented men on college campuses and within the community whose personal, social and academic qualifications are acceptable to the Fraternity. Alpha Phi Alpha is not interested in the accumulation of members. The Fraternity's emphasis, however, is in the quality, dedication and integrity of its membership.
The Fraternity reaffirms its strong opposition to discrimination based upon age, race, color, religious creed, national origin, sexual orientation and disability or the prejudice of candidates related to such matters.
Membership Intake Process
Alpha Phi Alpha recognizes two types of membership, College and Alumni. An aspirant (a man seeking membership into Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.) may apply for membership into a College Chapter as an undergraduate student in good standing at a fully accredited four year college or university. College Aspirants can only join the Fraternity at a College or University where an active chapter is present. Aspirants may also apply for membership into an Alumni Chapter as a graduate who has earned a degree from a fully accredited four year college of university. Alumni Aspirants are encouraged to join chapters that are within a 60 mile radius of their permanent place of residence.
All Membership Intake Processes, college and alumni, shall conform to the same rules and regulations set forth by the Standing Orders, the Constitution & By-laws and elsewhere. NO intake process may contain activities barred by the laws of the Fraternity, municipalities, states, academic institutions, and the federal government. Membership in Alpha Phi Alpha does not give a member the privilege to initiate new members, nor is a chapter granted the privilege outside of its charter jurisdiction.
Eligibility Requirements
Alumni Chapter Membership Any male holder of an earned baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university may be presented as a candidate for membership in an Alumni Chapter provided that he: - Has been minimally conferred a four year baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution; - Is of good character. - Is registered to vote, if eligible and qualified. - Is sponsored by three (3) members in good standing.