Delta Kappa Epsilon - Chapters

Chapters

Within three years of the founding at Yale, chapters were founded at Bowdoin, Princeton University, Colby College, and Amherst College. DKE has grown to over 51 chapters and has initiated over 85,000 members across North America.

Traditionally an Eastern Seaboard fraternity, DKE's Yale chapter had an early reputation as a Southerner's fraternity. Two of the original founders were from the South and 13 out of 38 members of 1845 and 1846 were from the South. DKE's first chapter in the South was Gamma chapter founded in 1847 (Vanderbilt University) followed by Psi chapter at the University of Alabama in the same year.

Delta Kappa Epsilon's first West Coast chapter was founded at the University of California, Berkeley on Halloween night, 1876. The DKE chapter at Colgate University (Hamilton, NY) is one of the only DKE chapters having a Temple building, one which only can be entered by Mu DKE members. The Lambda Chapter at Kenyon College in 1854 built the first fraternity lodge in America. The Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York was founded in 1885 and is currently in residence at the Yale Club of New York City. Delta Kappa Epsilon became an international fraternity with the addition of the Alpha Phi chapter in 1898 at the University of Toronto, Canada. The newest Chapter is the Sigma Xi Chapter at St. Joseph's College (Long Island). The newest Colony is currently at Auburn University where it is likely to become the newest Chapter of the National Fraternity. This will be the third chapter in Alabama behind the chapters of both The University of Alabama and Troy University.

As of May 2012, Delta Kappa Epsilon has seven colonies at Manhattan College, North Carolina State University, Auburn University, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of Florida, Oklahoma State University and Hampden Sydney College.