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Sigma Alpha Iota
"Greek Letter Sororities. Women's Secret Societies in American Colleges". Times Union. Brooklyn, New York. 1907-07-21. p. 13. Retrieved 2025-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
Sigma Alpha Iota (ΣΑΙ) is an international music fraternity. It was established in 1903 at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sigma Alpha Iota is a member of the National Interfraternity Music Council and the Professional Fraternity Association.
Sigma Alpha Iota was founded on June 12, 1903 at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Its founders were seven women: Elizabeth A. Campbell, Frances Caspari, Minnie Davis Sherrill, Leila Farlin Laughlin, Nora Crane Hunt, Georgina Potts, and Mary Storrs Andersen. It was a women's fraternity, formed to "uphold the highest standards of music" and "to further the development of music in America and throughout the world".
The sorority's Alpha chapter was incorporated on December 1, 1904. A second chapter, Beta, was chartered in 1904 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In 1907, Sigma Alpha Iota had forty active members and 100 total initiates, with three chapters and one alumnae club. Its first national conference was held in 1907. National conferences include recitals by members.
Sigma Alpha Iota published a book of its original songs in 1923, with a second edition in 1926. In 1925, it created a scholarship that was distributed via a contest overseen by the National Federation of Music Clubs. The sorority changed its name to Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity in 1928. However, it remained an organization for women.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, enacted on June 23, 1972, prohibits discrimination based on gender in educational programs receiving federal funding. This prohibition extends to professional societies for students enrolled at universities that receive federal funds for student financial aid or other programs. However, social organizations, such as social fraternities and sororities, are specifically exempted.
To remain a fraternity of women, Sigma Alpha Iota petitioned for an exemption from Title IX from the U.S. Department of Education as a music fraternity that would initiate only women at the undergraduate level, and men and women at the professional level. In 1981, the fraternity was officially granted exemption from Title IX by the DOE to remain single-sex as a social organization.
Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is a member of the Professional Fraternity Association. It was a founding member of the National Council of Professional Music Fraternities.
Sigma Alpha Iota
"Greek Letter Sororities. Women's Secret Societies in American Colleges". Times Union. Brooklyn, New York. 1907-07-21. p. 13. Retrieved 2025-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
Sigma Alpha Iota (ΣΑΙ) is an international music fraternity. It was established in 1903 at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sigma Alpha Iota is a member of the National Interfraternity Music Council and the Professional Fraternity Association.
Sigma Alpha Iota was founded on June 12, 1903 at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Its founders were seven women: Elizabeth A. Campbell, Frances Caspari, Minnie Davis Sherrill, Leila Farlin Laughlin, Nora Crane Hunt, Georgina Potts, and Mary Storrs Andersen. It was a women's fraternity, formed to "uphold the highest standards of music" and "to further the development of music in America and throughout the world".
The sorority's Alpha chapter was incorporated on December 1, 1904. A second chapter, Beta, was chartered in 1904 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In 1907, Sigma Alpha Iota had forty active members and 100 total initiates, with three chapters and one alumnae club. Its first national conference was held in 1907. National conferences include recitals by members.
Sigma Alpha Iota published a book of its original songs in 1923, with a second edition in 1926. In 1925, it created a scholarship that was distributed via a contest overseen by the National Federation of Music Clubs. The sorority changed its name to Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity in 1928. However, it remained an organization for women.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, enacted on June 23, 1972, prohibits discrimination based on gender in educational programs receiving federal funding. This prohibition extends to professional societies for students enrolled at universities that receive federal funds for student financial aid or other programs. However, social organizations, such as social fraternities and sororities, are specifically exempted.
To remain a fraternity of women, Sigma Alpha Iota petitioned for an exemption from Title IX from the U.S. Department of Education as a music fraternity that would initiate only women at the undergraduate level, and men and women at the professional level. In 1981, the fraternity was officially granted exemption from Title IX by the DOE to remain single-sex as a social organization.
Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is a member of the Professional Fraternity Association. It was a founding member of the National Council of Professional Music Fraternities.