Mission

Fraternity: Advancing the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, leadership and service for our members throughout life.

Foundation: To support philanthropic efforts that let those who rise above become the True Gentleman they strive to be.

Financial and Housing: To provide healthy, safe housing environments for our members and guests with high-level property management, resource acquisition, and services

March 9, 1856
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We’re one of the country’s oldest and largest fraternities, founded on March 9, 1856, at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Our founders were Noble Leslie DeVotie, Nathan Elams Cockrell, John Barratt Rudulph, John Webb Kerr, Samuel Marion Dennis, Wade Hampton Foster, Abner Edwin Patton, and Thomas Chappell Cook. DeVotie led this contingency, wrote the ritual, created the grip, and chose our name. Rudulph designed the badge. None of our founders were members of any other fraternity, although Noble Leslie DeVotie had been invited to join all of the other fraternities at the University of Alabama before founding Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

Febuary 15, 1956
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Texas Epsilon is founded at the University of Houston.

Today
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Today, over 330,000 brothers have been initiated among our 200+ chapters across the nation.