About Us
Phi Sigma Sigma is an international social sorority founded in 1913 at Hunter College. Our founders wanted to perpetuate the advancement of womanhood by setting three core values that all chapters share: lifelong learning, leadership through service, and inclusiveness. They approached the Dean of Women at Hunter College in New York City with an idea of creating a sorority that would promote open membership to all women of character that were committed to sisterhood, excellence in scholarship, and selfless giving. Phi Sigma Sigma was the first nonsectarian sorority - not based upon one specific religion and to be open to a diverse membership. Today Phi Sigma Sigma proudly holds over 100 chapters in both the United States and Canada. Iota Zeta is the name of our Chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma. Once upon a time, there was a local sorority on campus, Zeta Omega Rho. Incidentally, a sister of the Zeta Nu chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma transferred to the University of Minnesota Duluth. She longed for her days as a Phi Sigma Sigma, and in 2001 decided to make a good faith effort in recreating her sorority experience by forming a new local sorority, Delta Omega Lambda. These two sororities were mutually interested in becoming attached to a larger, national governing body. In order to gain national sorority attention, the two local organizations united their efforts. In unity they became a colony of Phi Sigma Sigma, initiated January 31, 2004, to establish the Iota Zeta chapter. *As allowed under the Title IX exemption for social fraternities and sororities, this organization may limit membership to a single gender*
