Clemson University will add its 14th Panhellenic sorority in the upcoming 2025 academic year.
Alpha Omicron Pi announced in early March that it will join Clemson University this fall.
This addition will mark the fifth chapter for Alpha Omicron Pi in South Carolina and will be the first new chapter to join Clemson University since Delta Gamma’s reestablishment in 2020.
To gather more recognition and interest for potential new members, representatives hosted several tabling events throughout campus to share the sisterhood and its impact.
The sisterhood was first established in 1897 at Barnard College in New York City, with its five founding members striving for commitment to lifelong friendship, simplicity, good character and high ideals.
The organization spans across 131 collegiate chapters and has amassed over 216,000 members.
The cultural principles of the organization are accountability and ownership, collaboration, engagement, innovation and open and honest communication, as stated on Alpha Omicron Pi’s website.
Alpha Omicron Pi supports the Arthritis Foundation as their philanthropic organization. They host two national events, the Jingle Bell Run and the Walk to Cure Arthritis, to raise money to help fund arthritis research.
“Alpha Omicron Pi is about pushing women to be the very best they can be,” Annabelle May, an Educational Leadership Consultant from the Alpha Delta chapter, said in an interview with The Tiger. “We want to do that here at Clemson.”
They will participate in the first round of formal Panhellenic recruitment and have continuous events after bid day.
The sorority will host a philanthropy, sisterhood and preference round followed by bid day on September 7, 2025.
Educational Leadership Consultants, volunteers and collegiate Alpha Omicron Pi members working for the organization will aid and assist in the recruitment process as the sorority begins its first recruitment process at Clemson.
“We have so many different, diverse backgrounds, but we all come together to create one sisterhood…Our motto is to inspire ambition,” Morgan Huddy, an Educational Leadership Consultant from the Theta Iota chapter, said. “It’s all about supporting one another and just having fun together.”
