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The Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America (ΖΨ) was founded June 1, 1847 as a social college fraternity. The organization now comprises about fifty active chapters and twenty-five inactive chapters, encompassing roughly twenty thousand brothers, and is a founding member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference. It has historically been selective about the campuses at which it establishes chapters, focusing on forging new territory and maintaining a presence at prestigious institutions: it was the first Fraternity on the West Coast at the University of California at Berkeley June 10, 1870, the first Fraternity in Canada at the University of Toronto, March 27, 1879, and the first Fraternity to have a chapter at an Ivy League institution. It is also the only fraternity to have chapters simultaneously at all eight Ivy League schools with the chartering of Eta at Yale University in 1889 (though this claim lasted only a few years, owing to burgeoning faculty opposition to the Princeton chapter). The fraternity became bi-continental on May 3, 2008 with the chartering of Iota Omicron at the University of Oxford .
The mission statement of Zeta Psi is:
Zeta Psi strives to be a premier international men's fraternal organization dedicated to forging academic excellence and life-long bonds of brotherhood. Through active chapter participation and continuing alumni involvement, Zeta Psi members are committed to the development of leadership, character and intellect to the service of their brothers, their communities and mankind.
Its international headquarters is located in Pearl River, New York. Its current president is M. Lauck Walton, who was elected in 2010.
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