On January 16, 1920 at the campus of Howard University five phenomenal women founded Zeta Phi ! Beta Sorority, Incorporated. These women dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women and sought to establish a new organization predicated on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love, and above all Finer Womanhood.
It was within this environment that Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was founded. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was founded on the simple belief that sorority elitism and socializing should not overshadow the real mission for progressive organizations - to address societal mores, ills, prejudices, poverty, and health concerns of the day.

Since its inception, the Sorority has chronicled a number of firsts. Zeta Phi Beta was the first Greek-letter organization to charter a chapter in Africa (1948); to form adult and youth auxiliary groups; to centralize its operations in a national headquarters; and to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.

Viola Tyler, one of the dynamic five pearls stated, "There is a Zeta in a girl regardless of race, creed, or color, who has high standards and principles, a good scholarly average and an active interest in all things that she undertakes to accomplish."  We, the Beta Lambda Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, are proud to continue the legacy of true Finer-Womanhood.

- A letter of Interest send to : zphib_uhd@yahoogroups.com

- 12 completed semester hours

- Must maintain a minimum 2.5 GPA

- 2 Recommendation Letters

- Community Service Hours