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Sisters seeking the noblest
Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity has been dedicated to enriching the lives of women since Oct. 15, 1898. At the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia, our nine young Founders envisioned an organization that would perpetuate their ties of friendship.
125 years later, our Founders’ ideals of friendship, leadership development, service, academic achievement and continued personal growth still stand and are deeply rooted within ZTA’s proud past. We strive to help all our members embody these timeless values while thriving in today’s world. As our Creed says, “In Zeta Tau Alpha, lies the opportunity to learn those things which will ever enrich and ennoble our lives.”
To meet the challenge of enriching and ennobling the lives of our members, Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity works in partnership with our two other entities, the ZTA Foundation and the ZTA Fraternity Housing Corporation. The ZTA Foundation offers members the opportunity to serve others through our national philanthropy, breast cancer education and awareness, as well as local philanthropic and service activities. In addition to funding the Fraternity’s educational programs, the ZTA Foundation awards approximately $1 million in scholarships each year. The ZTA Fraternity Housing Corporation, the largest in the Panhellenic world, provides safe, secure and competitive housing for our collegiate members and serves as an example to other fraternal organizations with its size, resources and organization.
More than 290,000 women have been initiated into the sisterhood of Zeta Tau Alpha since our founding. There are currently 172 active college campuses that are home to Zeta Tau Alpha chapters, each offering a unique experience for our members. We invite you to learn more about our organization, benefits of membership and the recruitment process.
In order to join a sorority, potential new members must go through a recruitment process. Recruitment is a mutual selection process in which collegians determine the sororities that best fit them, and those groups determine which women they will ask to join. Learn more about joining a sorority.
Individual campuses will inform all potential new members about recruitment events and provide them with the necessary information.
The ZTA New Member Experience
Zeta Tau Alpha’s Zeta Is Forever New Member Experience emphasizes the values of the Fraternity. Each section of ZTA’s new member program focuses on values found in The Creed of Zeta Tau Alpha that all Zetas should seek in their daily lives, including greatness, understanding, purpose, sisterhood and noble leadership. ZTA new members across the country take part in this program and learn values they carry with them for a lifetime.
All first-year Zetas go through the Zeta Is Forever New Member Experience in the semester they join ZTA. The chapter’s VP II/New Member Coordinator and the Ritual Chairman facilitate the program. The new member experience consists of online workshops and weekly in-person meetings.
Each online workshop includes information and activities to assist new members in learning the material. Each 60-minute in-person meeting includes an icebreaker, a review of the online module, an interactive activity and time for personal reflection. The meetings allow for further discussion of the information to help new members build sisterhood with each other and strengthen their connection to ZTA.
Zeta Is Forever New Member Experience Lessons:
Seek Greatness: Get an introduction to ZTA’s new member experience and The Creed of Zeta Tau Alpha; explore your personal values and ZTA values.
Seek Understanding: Learn about ZTA’s history, including our founding story, as well as the current structure of the national organization and your local chapter.
Seek Purpose: Consider The Creed and how the Fraternity, its chapters and individual members abide by it.
Seek Sisterhood: Focus on sisterhood and define what it means to you.
Seek the Noblest: Learn what ZTA’s open motto means and how to be a noble leader.
Seek Meaning (post-Initiation lesson): Review key information you learned during the Initiation Service.
Seek Commitment (post-Initiation lesson): Ensure you understand the values found in the Initiation Service as you complete your new member experience.