Experience Alder & Ivy

Four years of college.
A lifetime of sisterhood.

Late-night study tables, sunrise service projects, big-little reveal screams, and women who will stand beside you at every milestone after. This is the experience.

Our four pillars

Everything a chapter does — every meeting, mixer, fundraiser and formal — stands on one of these four pillars.

Sisterhood

Retreats, traditions, and everyday rituals that turn strangers into chosen family — from first hello to fiftieth reunion.

Study materials and notebooks on a table

Scholarship

Study hours, tutoring circles, and academic grants that keep sisters at the top of the dean’s list — and loving learning.

Sisters serving their community together

Service

Hands-on philanthropy for children’s literacy and family wellbeing — thousands of volunteer hours every single semester.

Leadership

Real offices, real budgets, real decisions. Sisters graduate with résumés — and judgment — most professionals take years to build.

Graduates tossing their caps into the air

Traditions you’ll keep

The moments that make it yours

Lantern Night. New members receive their first lantern and learn the founders’ story by candlelight.

Ivy Week. A spring week of service, capped by planting ivy at the chapter house together.

Golden Hearts Gala. Alumnae return each fall to honor the senior class and pass down their wisdom.

The Climb. At graduation, sisters tie ivy ribbons to the chapter gate — one for every dream carried out into the world.

Start your story

A year in the life

Fall

Welcome & Recruitment

Meet-the-chapter events, recruitment week, Bid Day, and the first sisterhood retreat.

Winter

Service & Study

Literacy drives, finals study tables, initiation, and the winter formal.

Spring

Lead & Celebrate

Officer elections, Ivy Week, philanthropy gala, and senior send-off.

Summer

Grow & Gather

Leadership academy, internships with sisters, and hometown meetups.

Four years of college.A lifetime of sisterhood.