About

Nationally, the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta was founded at Old Jefferson College on May 1st, 1848 by six friends united in brotherhood. FIJI quickly spread to other campuses and began to flourish. Throughout the Civil War, the fraternity continued to gain members and even new chapters in the Northern states.

Since the 1920s, FIJI has grown to over 140,000 members from over 140 active chapters across the nation’s leading Universities and is the 13th oldest Greek letter fraternity. Our international headquarters is now located in Lexington, Kentucky and through it’s field secretaries and other positions maintains close ties to all the chapters around the nation uniting them in annual events and bi-annual meetings. To this present day, there have been 162,000+ initiated brothers since the 1848 founding date and currently over 6,500 brothers are active undergraduates across 115 chapters and 10 Delta colonies at nearly all major colleges in the U.S. and Canada.

The Upsilon Kappa chapter was originally founded at UK in 1959. In 1991 the chapter was reestablished at the University and flourished. Currently we have 60 brothers who exemplify the values of friendship, knowledge, service, morality, and excellence; the guiding values of Phi Gamma Delta.

Brotherhood in Phi Gamma Delta lasts a lifetime and truly is “not for college days alone”.