223 total chapters, 17 colonies
Approximately 10,000 undergraduates
Approximately 1,400 pledges
Average chapter size, including pledges and actives, is 40 men.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon has initiated more than 290,000 men in total.

The Fraternity’s largest chapters are located at the University of Arkansas, with 144 members, and Texas Tech University, with 138 members.

There are approximately 190,000 living alumni in the Fraternity. The average colony size is 26 men, and the average colony GPA is 3.0.

Tidbits

The Gentlemen’s Circle is an exclusive online community for members, where they can create profiles, share personal information and create networking opportunities. To date, there are more than 16,000 active profiles, dozens of events and 15,000 messages on the site from our members who are using it. In addition, Gentlemen’s Circle contains hundreds of job postings and the ability for members to post their resumes. New for 2009, Gentlemen’s Circle and Facebook profiles can be linked together via a tool that helps the programs talk to one another.

The website designed exclusively for undergraduate and volunteer resources is called The TGI, which is located at www.thetgi.net. In 2008, it was completely redesigned. It houses vital resources and documents, which have been downloaded more than one million times since the site first launched.

For the 2008-2009 academic year, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation awarded 46 named merit-based scholarships totaling $66,500 in amounts between $5,000-1,000, plus a $10,000 scholarship to the True Gentleman of the Year. It also awarded more than $120,000 through various chapter educational funds. About 150 of our chapters have chapter education funds, which are used toward Leadership School tuition, academic scholarships or other educational expenses.

This year, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation awarded student loans totaling more than $125,000.

The organization’s magazine, The Record, was voted Greek Magazine of the Year in 2007 and has earned more than 30 awards for excellence in the past four years.

The 2008-2009 John O. Moseley Zeal Award winner was the University of Minnesota, which is designated as Minnesota Alpha.
The 2008 True Gentleman of the Year was Robert McNamara from Millikin University.
The 2008 Province Archon of the Year was Thomas Hailey from Province Sigma.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapters raised nearly $90,000 in 2008 for Children’s Miracle Network, our preferred national philanthropy. Pennsylvania Eta-Gamma at Villanova University raised $40,000 of that amount via its annual golf tournament.

Governance Structure

The organization is governed through a five-person executive board (Supreme Council) that is elected at biennial conventions. An executive director (Eminent Supreme Recorder) supervises a staff of approximately 28 at the Fraternity Service Center in Evanston, Illinois, and eight regional directors. The United States and Canada are divided into 29 regions (provinces) overseen by regional volunteers called province archons. Each chapter is required to have an active chapter adviser.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation

The SAE Foundation was established in 1927 to create programs that promote the highest ideals of academic and personal development. The existing programs include named scholarships, a student-loan program and the international LeadershipSchool that has produced more than 38,000 graduates. The SAE Foundation awards $69,000 in scholarships annually in support of its mission.

Some Prominent Alumni

William McKinley, Elliot Ness, David Spade, Phil Jackson, Dennis Erickson, William Faulkner, Joe Foss, Bob Ballard, General Richard Myers, Ernie Harwell, Tony Boselli, Bo Schembechler, Nick Lachey, Fred Savage, Pete Carroll, Mack Brown

Our Creed

The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.
-John Walter Wayland