by Jim Fleischer, Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity For 195 years, fraternities have provided college men with an opportunity to build Brotherhood, gain leadership experience, provide service and philanthropy to the community and become better men. And, they’ve done this within the context of working within the university environment. That may be changing. One hundred and six years ago, our founder — the Immortal Eleven — created a place for young Jewish college men to build fellowship and to create a home away from home. I’m sure they never imagined that all of these years later we […]

When Mike Leven (Tufts, 1959) graduated from college, he never imagined that one day he would serve as the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, become the Chairman and CEO of the Georgia Aquarium, or launch the Jewish Future Pledge with the ambitious goal of securing the Jewish future. But, as an AEPi Brother, he knew he had the leadership skills to succeed professionally and to make a difference for his community. “I decided that I wanted to go into advertising and public relations, which I got to by working in sales,” said Leven. “But […]

by Rob Derdiger, Chief Financial Officer, Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity Fraternity housing for our chapters can take many different forms. Some chapters are fortunate enough to occupy traditional fraternity houses that are owned or operated by AEPi house corporations while others rent facilities on their own. For most of our Brothers living in a fraternity house is their first residential experience where they are responsible for signing a lease, paying rent, cleaning up after themselves, making sure that they do not damage the premises, reporting maintenance issues to a landlord, and even buying toilet paper. To say that this is […]

by Andrew S. Borans, CEO of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation I began working for AEPi in 1980 so I can tell you with some perspective: it has never been harder to be a Jewish student on a college campus than it is right now. On college campuses throughout the world, Jews are on the defensive. And, both the administration and anti-Israel “student” groups are the cause. For many years, Jewish groups like AEPi, Hillel, AIPAC campus cadres, Chabad and others co-existed with other student groups like the General Union of Palestinian Students. In general, we just didn’t bother each […]