Join us on Thursday, August 14th at 6PM Eastern for our final session of the 2025 “Summer Leadership Series” specifically tailored to Chapter Treasurers and titled “Budgeting, Dues, and 990s”. This session will walk through the nuts and bolts of what a chapter treasurer needs to be doing, and will talk about some of the aspects that are often forgotten. From how to set a budget, track Accounts Receivables, filing your taxes, and other hints, tips and best practices to help you succeed this Fall.
The Fraternity Executives Association Distinguished Service Award recognizes sustained and successful leadership in interfraternity affairs and outstanding support of the FEA’s mission “…the professional development of its members while promoting the values and success of the fraternal movement”. This year, at the FEA’s annual meeting in Denver, Mark Williams was recognized for his 27-year career at our International Office, exemplifying the award’s highest ideals.
From 1990 until 2012, Mark served as Executive Director of Psi Upsilon Fraternity and Foundation and continued leading the Foundation until his 2017 retirement. His tenure brought transformative modernization: he established the Summer Leadership Institute in 1991 and the Presidents Academy in 1994, developed our first proprietary database, launched Psi Upsilon’s inaugural website in 1996, and directed the strategic relocation of the International Office to Indianapolis in 1993. These initiatives strengthened our infrastructure, elevated member engagement, and laid the foundation for continued growth.
Mark’s vision extended beyond Psi Upsilon. Drawing on his legal background, he volunteered as a director for FIPG (1993–1996) and FRMT (1998–2017), served on committees for the North-American Interfraternity Conference and its foundation, and chaired the Institute for Greek Advancement (2011–2013). His six year tenure as an FEA director, culminating in his presidency in 2010, underscores his belief that interfraternal collaboration amplifies the impact of every organization.
Please join us in congratulating Mark Williams on this well-deserved honor. His visionary leadership and passion for fraternity life have left an enduring legacy at Psi Upsilon and across the Greek-letter community. Mark is the second Psi U to receive this honor, following Henry Poor, Gamma ’39 (Amherst) who served as Psi Upsilon’s Executive Director prior to Mark.
You can view Mark’s Acceptance speech, where he stresses how much he got back by learning from other leaders and offers advice to everyone: “… Michelangelo didn’t learn to paint by reading a book on painting, he learned by painting. We learn by leading…” on our YouTube channel here.
Jean Gileno-Lloyd, Delta Zeta (former Psi Upsilon Director of Communications), Jonathan Chaffin, Gamma Tau ’00, Thomas Fox, Omicron ’00, Mark Williams, Phi ’76 and Mariann Williams, Chi Delta ’16H
Joshua Lee ’22 and Hrishabh Parekh ‘22, graduates of the Theta Theta chapter at the University of Washington, recognized a common financial challenge among college students—managing shared expenses effectively. In 2023, driven by their firsthand experiences, they founded Tribe Money Pools, a startup aimed at simplifying group financial management.
During his time at UW, Joshua served as both Recruitment Chair and Archon of the Theta Theta chapter, where he encountered the complexities of handling group funds. From collecting dues to tracking payments, the process was often cumbersome, requiring spreadsheets, constant reminders, and extensive coordination, especially during leadership transitions.
Hrishabh faced similar frustrations in his everyday college life. Whether it was splitting rent with roommates, organizing group trips, or managing shared expenses, existing payment tools like Venmo and Zelle still required someone to front the costs and chase reimbursements later.
Recognizing these shared struggles, Joshua and Hrishabh developed Tribe Money, a platform designed to streamline group financial management. Tribe allows users to create shared virtual accounts—money pools—in a matter of seconds, offering a seamless solution for student organizations, fraternities, roommates, volunteer organizations, social clubs, and more.
For fraternities and sororities, Tribe provides a practical alternative to traditional banking. Setting up an official club account can be complicated, sometimes leading groups to rely on a treasurer’s personal account, which introduces risks and inefficiencies. Tribe eliminates these concerns by enabling organizations to establish dedicated, shared accounts, ensuring transparency and easy management without requiring a visit to the bank. Officers can be added to the pool, allowing for real-time financial visibility and a smooth transition when leadership changes.
Beyond student organizations, Tribe benefits everyday groups by facilitating advanced collections for dinners, trips, concerts, or shared bills. This proactive approach helps prevent overspending while reducing the burden of post-expense tracking. Everyone involved knows their contributions and how the funds are allocated, removing unnecessary uncertainty and awkward financial follow-ups.
Joshua and Hrishabh’s vision for Tribe Money Pools is rooted in making shared financial management effortless, fostering collaboration, and eliminating common hurdles that any organization or group may face, and is a result of their time as undergraduate leaders in Psi Upsilon. Through their innovative platform, they are transforming the way people handle group expenses, bringing clarity and convenience to financial interactions.
Tribe Money Pools recently presented at the Psi Upsilon Foundation’s Annual Fishfund venture summit and was a sponsor of the 2024 Gilrane Economic Symposium. We encourage any Psi U’s to learn more about Tribe Money Pools by visiting their website and downloading their app from the Google Play Store or App Store (iOS/Apple).
Psi Upsilon is excited to announce an opening for the role of Growth Coordinator—a dynamic, full-time position for someone passionate about Psi Upsilon, recruitment, leadership development, and helping students thrive in their college experience.
As Growth Coordinator, you’ll play a key role in advancing Psi Upsilon’s mission by supporting recruitment and expansion efforts across North America. This will primarily involve restarting dormant chapters of Psi Upsilon and providing recruitment support to existing chapters that need assistance. Working closely with our Director of Growth and Chapter Services Team, you’ll travel to campuses, build relationships with university partners, and help undergraduates strengthen their leadership skills.
This role is ideal for a recent graduate who enjoys a balance of independence and teamwork, is energized by travel and personal connections, and is dedicated to making a positive impact within our fraternity. From identifying new members to implementing chapter retreats, the Growth Coordinator is at the heart of our efforts to grow and support Psi Upsilon.
What We’re Looking For:
The ideal candidate is a self-motivated professional with:
A bachelor’s degree
Strong communication and relationship-building skills
A willingness to travel and work with a variety of collegiate members and campuses
The ability to work independently while supporting a collaborative team
A valid driver’s license and insured vehicle
Psi Upsilon membership and leadership experience are preferred but not required. This role offers competitive pay, full benefits, paid vacation, and travel reimbursements. While the International Office is based in Indianapolis, remote arrangements will be considered for the right candidate.
If you’re ready to help shape the next generation of Psi Upsilon brothers and bring lasting value to our chapters, we’d love to hear from you.
This form is to recommend a brother for the David A.B. Brown Distinguished Alumni Award. This award is the highest recognition that may be bestowed upon an alum of Psi Upsilon for bringing honor to the Fraternity by exemplifying the true spirit and meaning of brotherhood in all that they do and say, for dedicated and unselfish service in pursuit of the advancement of the Fraternity, and for demonstrating a commitment to serve the educational environment, community, and country.
The purpose of this Award is to recognize those who have done great things that align to the values of Psi Upsilon Fraternity in their personal or professional life. If you are looking to recognize a brother who has volunteered for the fraternity or to a chapter, please recommend them for the Distinguished Alumni Service Award.
Please be as detailed as possible when creating a statement of why this alum is deserving of the award. The Awards and Recognition Committee of Psi Upsilon will review all submissions.
We will do our best to coordinate with the individuals who make a recommendation and any chapter the alum is a member of to determine the best way to recognize any recipients of the award.
If you have any questions or would prefer to send a letter of recommendation via email, please contact the Executive Director of the Fraternity, Thomas Fox, at tfox@psiu.org or 317-571-1833 x 103.
This form is to recommend a brother for the Distinguished Alumni Service Award, which recognizes alums who have contributed a lifetime of service to Psi Upsilon Fraternity, especially those who support a local chapter or have otherwise brought honor to the fraternity.
Please be as detailed as possible when creating a statement of why this alum is deserving of the award. The Awards and Recognition Committee of Psi Upsilon will review all submissions.
We will do our best to coordinate with the individuals who make a recommendation and any chapter the alum works with to determine the best way to recognize any recipients of the award.
If you have any questions or would prefer to send a letter of recommendation via email, please contact the Executive Director of the Fraternity, Thomas Fox, at tfox@psiu.org or 317-571-1833 x 103.
Over the last two decades, I have been incredibly fortunate to have met a number of Psi U brothers but for those I have not had the pleasure of meeting, my name is Tim Zepp, Chi Delta ’08 (Duke University). I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and provide an update on the work of the Executive Council including a number of our strategic goals and priorities.
By way of background, my undergraduate fraternity experience helped to shape me in countless ways and develop the soft skills that guided my career path from engineering to consulting to investment banking. In Psi U, I learned how to build consensus around common goals, navigate interpersonal challenges and was encouraged by my fellow brothers to step up in leadership roles. After graduating I wanted to continue giving back to this organization that had given me so much, which eventually led me to serve as a Director of the Psi Upsilon Foundation prior to serving on the Executive Council Board for several years and elected President this past July. The Executive Council helps to conduct the business of the fraternity, including developing the strategic vision and priorities guiding the future of the organization. In my time serving on both of our boards, I have been incredibly impressed by the level of thoughtfulness and dedication of our many volunteer leaders which has inspired me to be a better leader.
As President of the Executive Council, I am incredibly excited by the work we are doing to try to bring greater connectivity across our global network. We are thinking creatively to support our chapter and alumni group leaders so they may run their organizations more effectively and efficiently. One example is our work to rollout career-mentorship offerings across our chapters by codifying and leveraging ideas and best practices from successful programs like the one run by the Psi chapter at Hamilton College. We are also in the process of building the framework for geography-based Psi U Alumni Clubs to provide new opportunities to build cross-generational and cross-chapter connections across our network.
As we continue to enhance the programs we provide to our membership, we are also focused on investing in our long-term success and growth. Coming up next month, Psi Upsilon’s March Challenge is an opportunity to invest in the future of our brotherhood through the donation of money (or new for this year, pledging your time) to support the growth of our organization, including our plans to hire a new junior staff member to work closely with undergraduates on current and prospective Psi U campuses. Amplifying the impact of the amazing work that our brotherhood is already doing each and every day is a top priority and I believe the biggest opportunity we have to demonstrate the value of lifelong fraternal membership.
As we all know from our lived experiences and supported by research from the North American Interfraternity Conference, brotherhood in Psi Upsilon provides numerous lifelong benefits including friendships, a sense of belonging and skills that serve as an accelerator for success in college and beyond. None of this is possible without the many volunteer leaders and professional staff of our Fraternity and Foundation working hard each and every day to execute on the vision and many initiatives described above. The long-term success of our organization relies on the engagement of each of you reading this and the brothers in your individual networks. No matter your age, background, or past involvement with Psi Upsilon, we would appreciate your involvement, and I would enjoy hearing your ideas, feedback, and have you join an upcoming Psi U event! Thank you for reading and I look forward to connecting with many of you in the future.
Yours in the Bonds,
Tim Zepp, Chi Delta ‘08 President of the Psi Upsilon Executive Council
The March Challenge is an annual fundraising competition in which Psi Upsilon chapters compete against one another to see which has the most donors. The money raised goes specifically towards the growth initiatives of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity and beacuse of the support from prior Challenges we’ve been able to:
Hire a Director of Growth in 2021, the first time Psi Upsilon has been able to support an employee specifically tasked with the Expansion and Growth of Psi Upsilon.
We also have upcoming growth opportunities, including an interest group at Kenyon College considering restarting the Iota Chapter, an invitation to restart the Mu at the University of Minnesota this Fall of 2025, returning to Trinity College and restarting the Beta Beta Chapter in Fall 2025 and potential opportunities to restart the Rho at Wisconsin, Delta Nu at Keene State, Phi Nu at Christopher Newport Universityand our first chapter, the Theta at Union College.
Last year Psi Upsilon initiated 392 New Members and has already initiated 240 New Members, putting us on pace to surpass last year!
In 2024, 166 alums from 26 chapters helped us raise over $31,000 for the Psi Upsilon Annual Fund! The Gamma Tau Chapter at Georgia Tech came in first place followed by the Omicron (Illinois), Phi Delta (Mary Washington), Eta (Lehigh) and Omega (Chicago) and Epsilon Iota (RPI) tied for 5th place. Help us surpass this total in 2025 and help Psi U continue to grow!
Research shows that the fraternity experience matters on today’s college campuses: It supports positive mental health, serves as a success accelerator for students and engenders loyalty and connecting among alumni creating lifelong connection to one’s campus, community and peers. At Psi U we are proud of the work we do to assist our chapters and The March Challenge is pivotal to our cause – to ensure our chapters survive and thrive so that students have the opportunity we did.
We hope to raise enough funds in the 2025 March Challenge to hire a Growth Coordinator to work with Psi Upsilon full-time, provide in person support, and help new and existing chapters with recruitment.
In addition to accepting monetary gifts to the March Challenge, in 2025 those who are willing to volunteer their time with Psi Upsilon will also get credit towards the challenge and be counted in their chapter’s total. If you are interested in helping us with an alumni club in your region, advising a chapter or expansion group, or creating content for our publications, we have matchers who are willing to donate $25 to your chapter’s total for the March Challenge, and count you in the donor total to your chapter. More information and the form to fill out can be found here.
We’d like to thank the following Psi U alums who were generous to make matching gifts in 2025:
Jake Schmidt, Chi Delta (Duke) – $5,000 Larry Rakers, Omicron (Illinois) – $5,000 Thomas Fox, Omicron ’00 (Illinois) – $1,000 David Hollis, Gamma Tau ’11 (Georgia Tech) – $1,000 Jim Platner, Phi Delta ’10 (Mary Washington) – $1,000 Jon Szynkowski, Epsilon Nu ’06 (Michigan State) – $1,000 Evan Terry, Epsilon Phi ’93 (McGill) – $1,000 Timothy Zepp, Chi Delta ’08 (Duke) – $1,000 Will Appleman, Phi Delta ’16 (Mary Washington) – $500 Joshua Lee, Theta Theta ’22 (Washington) – $500 Alex Senchak, Eta ’06 (Lehigh) – $500
We invite you to contribute to the success of the 2025 March Challenge by making a donation and helping advance the mission and vision of our beloved Psi Upsilon!
The Delta Omicron Chapter at Purdue University has helped Psi U achieve a new milestone and has become our 50th Chapter. Established as a colony in the Spring of 2016, it received recognition from the University and the Interfraternity Council (IFC) by the following Fall. The chapter expanded to over 30 members in its first two years and transitioned to a Provisional Chapter in April 2019. However, like many organizations, it faced challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to a decline in membership by 2021. Despite these obstacles, the chapter successfully revitalized itself. Last Fall, it submitted a petition that was accepted by the Executive Council and then distributed to the chapters of Psi Upsilon for final approval over the winter.
We’ll be holding a special Installation ceremony this coming Fall to recognize this momentous achievement and all Psi Upsilon brothers will be invited to attend!
First Class in Fall of 2016Initiation and Provisional Chapter Status Granted Fall 2019Anniversary Dinner Spring 2024
The Coat of Arms for the Delta Omicron Chapter was created by our Director of Engagement, Jonathan Chaffin, Gamma Tau, ’00 (Georgia Tech) with the Founding Class in the Spring of 2019.
The valknut emblem signifies the chapter’s commitment to courage and bravery. This symbol also connects to a forge, reflecting their affiliation with the University as Boilermakers. Each v-shape within the emblem represents the Greek letter “Nu,” which has a numerical value of 50. The golden Nu indicates that the Purdue Colony is the 50th Chapter of Psi Upsilon, while the combination of three Nu’s highlights that 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of Purdue University, which was established in 1869. The chapter’s motto translates to “We Create Dreams.”
The Epsilon Nu and Phi chapters are bringing back the Great Lakes Founders Day Dinner and all members of Psi Upsilon, from any chapter, are encouraged to attend!
Mark your calendar for Friday, March 21, and get ready to gather at the Lochmoor Country Club in Grosse Pointe Woods.
Meet our new pledges, active members, alumni and leadership of both chapters and enjoy dinner and drinks at the first Founders Day since 2019.
