Fraternity & Sorority Life

Membership in a fraternity or sorority often provides students with vast opportunities to develop lifelong friendships, leadership skills, scholastic achievement, social interaction, and networking communities.

Report hazing

HAZING IS A CRIME IN NORTH CAROLINA AND A VIOLATION OF FSU POLICY.

No organization at Fayetteville State is permitted to haze, and no student is required to endure it to belong. If you see it, experience it, or hear about it, report it. You can report anonymously, and you can report on someone else's behalf. If anyone's life is in danger, call 911 first.

University policy READ THE ANTI-HAZING POLICY Tap to open or close

It is against University policy, as well as the rules and regulations of each of the fraternities, sororities, student organizations and groups, and social fellowships, to initiate or discipline fellow students by means of horseplay, practical jokes, punishment, oppression, unlawful harassment in violation of the FSU Non-Discrimination Policy, and tricks in the nature of humiliation or infliction of painful ordeals or infliction of excessive work. More specifically, there should not be any paddling or inflicting of abusive or humiliating stunts that could cause bodily harm to prospective candidates.

The term hazing shall include, but not be limited to, pressuring or coercing a student into violating state or federal law; any brutality of a physical nature, such as striking in any manner, whipping, beating, branding, exposure to the elements, forced consumption of food, liquor, drugs or other substances; or other forced physical activities that would adversely affect the health or safety of the student. It also includes any activity that would subject the student to extreme mental stress, such as sleep deprivation, forced exclusion from social contacts, forced conduct that would be extremely demeaning or results in extreme embarrassment, or any other forced activity that could adversely affect the mental health or dignity of the student.

Under North Carolina law, hazing is a crime. State law specifically prohibits a student from subjecting another student to physical injury as part of an initiation, or as a prerequisite to membership, into any University group, including any society, athletic team, fraternity or sorority, or other similar group.

Read FSU Policy 703: Hazing (PDF)

A fraternity or sorority is one of the few things you join at 19 and still belong to at 60. At Fayetteville State that means leadership roles, a service record, a study group that will not let you slide, and a network that follows you into every city you ever work in. FSU's Greek members are scholars, campus leaders and athletes, and they carry a large share of what makes this campus feel like home.

Fraternity and Sorority Life has been part of Fayetteville State since 1954. Today six chapters of National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations are active and in good standing on this campus, alongside two national honorary band organizations under the Independent Greek Council.

8 Active chapters
6 NPHC chapters
2 IGC chapters
1954 Greek life since
Fayetteville State students in fraternity and sorority letters fill the room at the annual FSU Step Show.
A Fayetteville State chapter president speaks on the campus quad in the FSL Freshman Welcome video.
A fraternity member raises the Fayetteville State University Step Show Champions trophy as his chapter celebrates.

Left and right: the annual FSU Step Show, photos by Top End Shoots. Centre: from the FSL Freshman Welcome video below.

Start here THINKING ABOUT JOINING?

Everything starts at an interest meeting. The National Pan-Hellenic Council holds University Greek Informational Meetings at the beginning of each semester — go to one, ask questions, and find out what each organization expects before you commit to anything.

Fall 2026

University Greek Informational Meetings

Tuesday, September 1  •  6:00 PM

Wednesday, September 2  •  6:00 PM

Rudolph Jones Student Center, Multipurpose Rooms 240 and 242

Spring 2027

University Greek Informational Meetings

Tuesday, January 26  •  6:00 PM

Wednesday, January 27  •  6:00 PM

Rudolph Jones Student Center, Multipurpose Rooms 240 and 242

Watch first FSL FRESHMAN WELCOME 2 minutes

Chapter leaders from FSU's National Pan-Hellenic Council made this for incoming students. They walk through what fraternity and sorority life looks like on this campus, what chants, stepping and strolling actually are, what membership will ask of you, and why you are expected to learn about an organization before you participate in anything it does. Two minutes, and it answers most of what students bring to the informational meetings.

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Why join WHAT MEMBERSHIP GIVES YOU

LEADERSHIP

Chapter office, council office, SGA, campus committees. You will run something before you graduate.

SCHOLARSHIP

Grade requirements, study hours, and chapter and national scholarship programs you would not find alone.

SERVICE

Every one of these organizations was founded to serve. Your hours go into Fayetteville, not just onto a résumé.

A NETWORK FOR LIFE

Chapters in every major city, alumni in every field, and people who will pick up the phone twenty years from now.

How it is organized THE TWO COUNCILS

NATIONAL PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL (NPHCFSU)

The governing body for FSU's chapters of the historically Black fraternities and sororities that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. NPHCFSU runs the informational meetings, the step show and joint programming across its member chapters.

NPHC on Bronco Advantage

INDEPENDENT GREEK COUNCIL (IGC)

The governing body for FSU's recognized Greek-letter organizations outside the NPHC. At Fayetteville State, the IGC is home to the two national honorary band organizations that support the Marching Bronco eXpress.

Tau Beta Sigma Kappa Kappa Psi

Both councils have constitutions their member chapters must follow. Where a chapter or national policy conflicts with a University policy, University policy governs.

Active and compliant CHAPTERS AT FAYETTEVILLE STATE Six NPHC chapters  •  Two IGC chapters

National Pan-Hellenic Council

Listed in order of national founding.

ΑΦΑ

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Epsilon Zeta Chapter

Founded 1906 • Cornell University

ΑΚΑ

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Delta Alpha Chapter

Founded 1908 • Howard University

ΚΑΨ

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Epsilon Beta Chapter

Founded 1911 • Indiana University

ΔΣΘ

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Delta Xi Chapter

Founded 1913 • Howard University

ΦΒΣ

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Pi Chapter

Founded 1914 • Howard University

ΙΦΘ

Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.

Xi Chapter

Founded 1963 • Morgan State University

Independent Greek Council

Membership in both organizations is tied to service in the University band program.

ΤΒΣ

Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority

Theta Alpha Chapter

Founded 1946

ΚΚΨ

Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity

Theta Tau Chapter

Founded 1919 • Chartered at FSU 1988

This list shows the chapters that are active at Fayetteville State right now. An organization you do not see here is not currently active on this campus — that status can change from semester to semester, so ask the Fraternity and Sorority Life Coordinator if you are looking for one in particular.

Membership intake HOW TO JOIN, STEP BY STEP

Step 1

GO TO THE INTEREST MEETING

You must attend the University-recognized interest meeting for the fraternity or sorority you want to join. Start with the NPHC informational meetings above — that is where every chapter presents.

Step 2

REGISTER WITH THE UNIVERSITY

Register in the Office of the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Rudolph Jones Student Center 211, inside the posted window. You will sign the required documents, including a statement that you understand the University's rules governing fraternities, sororities and social fellowships and the North Carolina statutes prohibiting hazing.

Step 3

MEET THE ACADEMIC ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

The requirements are in the Student Handbook under Fraternity and Sorority Life Eligibility, Section III.A.7. Check them early — a GPA is not something you can fix in the week before intake.

Step 4

CLEAR YOUR IMMUNIZATION RECORD

You must meet the University's immunization requirements. Call Student Health Services at (910) 672-1258 a full semester before you plan to go through intake, not the week of.

Step 5

STAY IN GOOD STANDING

If you are found responsible for a Code of Conduct violation during any part of the intake process, you are no longer eligible to continue.

Step 6

THE ORGANIZATION SELECTS ITS MEMBERS

Each organization chooses members under its own national guidelines. If you have questions or concerns about not being selected, take them to that organization's campus advisor first, then to its regional, state, district or national office.

Every student going through intake is responsible for upholding University policy and North Carolina law on hazing. That responsibility does not transfer to anyone else.

Documents and forms POLICIES & RESOURCES Tap to open or close

STUDENT HANDBOOK

Fraternity and Sorority Life eligibility, hazing, and the rules that govern chapters. See pages 19–24.

Open the handbook (PDF)

CODE OF CONDUCT

The standards every student is held to, including during every stage of membership intake.

Open the Code (PDF)

REQUEST GREEK PARTICIPATION

Planning an event or a community service project and want FSU's fraternities and sororities involved? Submit a service request.

Open the form

BRONCO ADVANTAGE

Every Greek event on campus, plus the rest of FSU's 100+ student organizations.

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