Alpha Omicron Chapter at the University of Iowa
NATIONAL HISTORY:
Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity was founded Oct. 15, 1898, at the Virginia State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. We now have more than 270,000 initiated members, 173 active collegiate chapters and 234 alumnae chapters across the country.
The Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation is the philanthropic and fund raising branch of the Fraternity. The ZTA Foundation leads our efforts in breast cancer education and awareness, provides more than $700,000 in scholarships annually, and sponsors educational and leadership opportunities for our members and others. The ZTA Foundation is partnered with the American Cancer Society, National Football League, and Bright Pink.
The ZTA Fraternity Housing Corporation is the largest in the Panhellenic world and provides safe, secure and competitive housing for all our collegiate members. The ZTA Housing Corporation currently owns or manages 113 facilities.
OUR BELIEFS:
From the charter granted to Zeta Tau Alpha by the State of Virginia, March 15, 1902: The object of said association shall be to intensify friendship, promote happiness among its members, and in every way to create such sentiments, to perform such deeds, and to mold such opinions as will conduce to the building up of a nobler and purer womanhood in the world.
MISSION STATEMENT:
To make a difference in the lives of our members by developing the potential of each individual through innovative programming, which emphasizes leadership development, service to others, academic achievement and continued personal growth for women, with a commitment to friendship and the future based on the sisterhood, values and traditions of the past.
PURPOSE:
The purpose of Zeta Tau Alpha is the intensifying of friendship, the fostering of a spirit of love, the creating of such sentiments, the performing of such deeds, and the moulding of such opinions as will be conducive to the building up of a purer and nobler womanhood in the world.