Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated was founded on the night of January 5, 1911 in Bloomington, Indiana at Indiana University. It was initially chartered and incorporated as Kappa Alpha Nu on May 15, 1911 making it the first NPHC organization to be incorporated. The name was later changed to Kappa Alpha Psi on April 15, 1915 by a proclamation by the Grand Polemarch, Elder Watson Diggs. Thus making Kappa Alpha Psi a Greek letter organization in every sense of the designation.

The fraternity's fundamental purpose is ACHIEVEMENT in every field of human endeavor. Early in this century, African-American students were actively dissuaded from attending college. Formidable obstacles were erected to prevent the few who were enrolled from assimilating into co-curricular campus life. This ostracism characterized Indiana University in 1911, thus causing Elder W. Diggs, Byron K. Armstrong, and eight other black students to form Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, which remains the only Greek letter organization with its first Chapter on the University's campus.

Objectives of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. are as follows:

• To unite college men of culture, patriotism, and honor in a bond of fraternity.
• To encourage honorable ACHIEVEMENT in every field of human endeavor.
• To promote spiritual, social, intellectual, and moral welfare of its members.
• To assist in the aims and purposes of colleges and universities.
• To inspire service in the public interest.

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