Phi Gamma Delta

Scholarship

We are in college first and foremost to learn. Our motto “Scholarship, Fraternity, Self” serves as a guideline for our daily priorities. Maintaining high academic standards is of utmost importance… we can’t be good FIJIs if we’re not good scholars first!

Consistently performing in the top 20% of fraternities on campus in terms of GPAs, Fiji has a self-regulated scholarship program that creates the ideal academic environment and gives each member an opportunity to seek help from the Brotherhood when needed. Going back 20+ years, the chapter’s Member GPA has never fallen below the university’s undergraduate All-Men’s GPA, a standard benchmark.

Our scholarship program comprises regular study hours in reserved space in Newman Library most weekdays in the semester, plus a proactive Scholarship Chairman whose job it is identify those Brothers who might need assistance in their studies and to help get him the resources he needs, and also to recognize and encourage our high academic performers. Newly Initiated Brothers (NIBs) get special attention from the Scholarship Chairman to make sure that the realities of onboarding into fraternity life do not adversely impact a NIB’s grades.

Between $3000 and $5000 in scholarship money is awarded every spring at our annual Frank Norris Pig Dinner semi-formal banquet. These funds have been donated by graduate brothers of the Fraternity, via various scholarship funds set up for us at the Phi Gamma Delta Educational Foundation.