Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. Announces Installation of Twenty-Ninth Undergraduate Colony
Mahwah, NJ – April 5, 2009 – The founders of the local chapter of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. introduced themselves today to the community during a public performance on the campus of Ramapo College of New Jersey.
The Sorority established its second New Jersey-based undergraduate entity in a private ceremony on April 3, 2009. The Alpha Theta Colony represents the twenty-ninth undergraduate installation of the national organization and the forty-fourth entity among the organization’s undergraduate and Graduate, Alumnae and Professional (GAP) colonies and chapters which are maintained by over 800 initiated women.
The Alpha Theta Colony’s four founding members of Irish, Puerto Rican, Australian, Russian and Polish descent concluded a year-and-a-half long effort to establish the colony at Ramapo College of New Jersey where they will seek to align with eight other cultural and multicultural sororities and fraternities comprising the United Cultural Greek Council (UCGC).
Members of the Alpha Theta Colony of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. will promote multiculturalism and facilitate the movement from tolerance to deep respect for the beauty of difference through educational, cultural and social events.
Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. was founded on April 11, 1997, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a mission to promote leadership, multiculturalism, and self-improvement through academic excellence, involvement in and service to the campus and community, as well as being living examples of sisterhood across different races, cultures, religions, backgrounds, and lifestyles. To learn more about Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc., visit
www.thetanuxi.org.
