SAE Mission Statement

The mission of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is to promote the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, and service for our members based upon the ideals set forth by our Founders and as specifically enunciated in our creed.
Membership
The Fraternity resides on college and university campuses, as a guest of the host institution. The current structure includes more than 16,000 undergraduates at more than 200 chapters in 48 states and Canada. Alumni are active in more than 75 alumni associations.
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 30 at the Fraternity Service Center in Evanston, Illinois, and four regionally-based assistant executive 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 advisor.
Fun Facts

SAE is North America's largest social fraternity with more than 331,000 initiated members and approximately 200,000 living alumni. Fraternal symbols include the lion, the phoenix, Minerva, and the fleur-de-lis. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the first fraternity to establish a national headquarters (1929), a national Leadership School (1935), a national Men's Health Issues Committee (1980), and a career-development program entitled the Leading Edge (1990). Currently, the Fraternity offers a comprehensive member-education program called The True Gentleman Initiative. The Fraternity communicates through The Record magazine, a quarterly publication that has been published continuously since 1880. New members receive a copy of The Phoenix for educational development. There are 214 total chapters, 21 colonies and approximately 13,500 undergraduates with an average chapter size of 60 men. More than 27,500 collegiate brothers have graduated from our annual John O. Moseley Leadership School.

Benefits of Brotherhood

Chapter Facts

Sigma Alpha Epsilon has been an active, thriving chapter at Oregon State University for over 100 years. Our brothers take pride in the Gentlemen that surround them and the organization they represent. Here are a few facts about the OSU SAE Chapter House that our brothers are proud to live in.

Address: 2929 NW Harrison Blvd. Corvallis, OR 97330

House Capacity: 72

Total Members: 122

  • House property spans 2 / 3 of a full city block and has the largest lawn of any fraternity
  • TV room with 60" plasma, 5.1 surround sound, and new leather couches
  • Sauna
  • Full-size basketball court with glass backboards - "Moe Court"
  • 42 parking spaces on fraternity grounds (for members only)
  • Convenient three block walk to campus
  • Active Alumni support both locally and nationally
  • Live-In House Father - Stro "Papa Stro" Strohmeyer
  • 17 chef-prepared meals per week and self-serve breakfasts for all live-in members
  • In-house study tables Sunday - Wednesday night
  • Minimum required GPA of 2.7 for all brothers
  • Newly remodeled dining room, recreation room, den, and sleeping porches
  • Secure bicycle shed
  • Free use of washers and dryers
  • Wi-Fi on all levels of house
  • Brand new Ping Pong table
  • Pool table
  • Dart board
  • House Wii U game console

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 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 things 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