The purpose of alpha Kappa Delta Phi is to promote sisterhood, scholarship, leadership, and Asian-American awareness in the university and in the community, while encouraging the expression of the individual. The sorority is composed of highly motivated women with diverse backgrounds, interests, and fields of study. Each woman, however, shares a strong bond of love, friendship, and sisterhood. With a supportive network of sisters, each woman can strive to fulfill her personal, academic, and career goals.
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alpha Kappa Delta Phi was established at the University of California, Berkeley in the fall of 1989. Four headstrong visionaries: Susan Kim, Fannie Pon, Jill Yoshimura, and Reina Yuan, initiated the concept of having an organization that would provide them as well as other young college women the opportunity to experience sisterhood, and to promote what they felt was integral to the development of successful women. After proposing their ideas to women at the Berkeley campus, they along with ten strong and willful fellow women, became the founding sisters of alpha Kappa Delta Phi.
Together as the charter class, they dedicated themselves to establishing a strong and lasting organization that would foster not only sisterhood, but scholarship, service, leadership and Asian American awareness as well. The founding sisters: Betty Chu, Karin Co, Susan Kim, Nancy Lee, Sherri Leung, Annie Loo, Belinda Ma, Anita Ng, Serene Ngin, Fannie Pon, Josie Sun, Daisy Wu, Jill Yoshimura, and Reina Yuan, came together to share one another's goals for a promising union. These ideals were to later set the foundation and purpose for alpha Kappa Delta Phi.
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Cornell University has a culturally diverse student population of which 19% is Asian. Unfortunately, that percentage is not reflected in the Greek life at Cornell; in fact, less than 1% of the Greek population is Asian. The reason, perhaps, maybe that no sorority or fraternity has ever specifically met the needs or concerns of the collegiate Asian community.
Finally, in the Spring of 1997, three women set out to establish the first Asian and Asian-American interest sorority at Cornell. Kelly Eng, Natalie Elizabeth Louie and Lucie Eun Mee Shin were some of the first women who realized that their concerns were not being met at the already existing sororities. However, their desire to still participate in the Greek system led them to alpha Kappa Delta Phi, a national Asian and Asian-American interest sorority.
As founders of the Charter class, they acquired the necessary information and documents to start a chapter at Cornell. Then, they began to recruit the other sisters of the Charter class who shared the same goals and visions for the first Asian-American interest sorority
In the Spring of 1997, the other women of the Charter class now included: Janet Cheng, Quan Diep, Hellin Jang, Helen Jen, Nancy Kim, Michelle Li, Patti Li, Rosalyn Nguyen, Christine Tao and Angela Yu. Together, as sisters of the Charter class at Cornell University, they vowed to give 100% dedication to promote sisterhood, leadership, support, love and friendship through the establishment of alpha Kappa Delta Phi Sorority.
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| A | Berkeley, California |
| B | University of California, Davis | G | University of California, San Diego | D | University of California, Santa Cruz | E | University of California, Riverside | Z | Stanford University | H | University of Texas, Austin | Q | University of Pennsylvania | I | University of Houston | K | University of California, Irvine | L | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | M | California State University, Sacramento | N | Pennsylvania State University | X | San Jose, CA | O | California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo | P | University of Washington | R | State University of New York, Buffalo | S | University of Virginia | T | Cornell University | U | University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign |
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| Boston University | |
| The Johns Hopkins University | |
| New York, NY | |
| Baylor University | |
| University of Illinois, Chicago | |
| State University of New York, Stony Brook | |
| Rutgers University | |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | |
| Florida State University | |
| State University of New York, Binghamton | |
| University of Oklahoma | |
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| Michigan State University | |
| Virginia Tech University | |
| University of Maryland, College Park | |
| James Madison University | |
| Purdue University, West Lafayette | |
| Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Queens, NY | |
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County | |
| Duke University | |
| University of South Florida | |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
| University of Florida | |
| City University of New York, Baruch | |
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