

^ a b Lowell Tech and nearby Lowell State merged in 1975 to form the University of Lowell, which changed its name to the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1991.^ This school merged into the University of Massachusetts system in 1991, assuming its new name.^ Philadelphia Textile (which had itself been renamed as Philadelphia University on July 13, 1999), merged with Thomas Jefferson University, adopting the Thomas Jefferson name, on May 2017.
#PHI KAPPA PSI NICKNAME PROFESSIONAL#
( Phi Delta Phi, law, became an honor society, formerly professional.) While all professional fraternities and sororities have scholastic requirements and honor their members' achievements, this is different from being an Honor society. (There are exceptions, and the lines blur.) Some national organizations of these two types have switched their emphasis to become the other style. Conversely, Honor societies are non-residential and normally focused on engagement after graduation. They may offer continuing engagement after graduation. Originally designed to support a residential experience for those in a specific field of study, many chapters are no longer residential, but their programming is solidly in support of improving their undergraduates while in school.
#PHI KAPPA PSI NICKNAME MANUAL#
Chapters Ĭhapter information from Baird's Manual (20th), which at that time reported approximately 6,000 members. The quarterly publication is The Phi Psi Quarterly. The Greek letters Φ and Ψ are in the center, rendered in gold.

The official badge is described as a diamond-shaped emblem with a gold border and four perpendicular gold bars on a black face. The fraternity flower is the Yellow Tea Rose. Ĭhapter naming traditions may have diverged: the Gamma chapter at Lowell Tech may have inserted the Gamma from its name into its national name, calling itself the Phi Gamma Psi fraternity. Yet the Alpha chapter of Phi Psi continued independently on the campus, remaining active today. In what appears to be a friendly schism, a majority or all of its members formed a separate organization from Phi Psi, their original professional fraternity, on Novemwhen they were accepted as the Pennsylvania Omicron chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon. Members from the Fraternity's Alpha chapter began a search for a national social fraternity to join. A total of ten collegiate chapters were formed, and twelve alumni chapters. With this, chapters were opened in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Alabama. The nation's textile industry center, previously in New England, shifted to the southern states. The fraternity's first alumni chapter was established in 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts. Its Beta chapter was formed at Southeastern Massachusetts (at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and Gamma chapter at Lowell Tech, just a year ( 1904) after its national founding. The fraternity quickly expanded to several Massachusetts textile schools, then the center of textile manufacturing in the US.

Phi Psi ( ΦΨ) is a professional fraternity in the field of textile arts and manufacturing engineering. Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. For the national social fraternity with a similar nickname, see Phi Kappa Psi. This article is about the professional fraternity with emphasis on textile arts.
