Phi Eta Sigma at St. Ambrose University

In 1923 Phi Eta Sigma was founded at the University of Illinois as a freshmen men's scholastic  honor fraternity.  Phi Eta Sigma has been a member of the College Honor Societies since 1937.  In 1974 Phi Eta Sigma dropped its fraternity designation and started admitting women.

In 1882 St. Ambrose was founded by the Rev. John McMullen, the first bishop of the Diocese of Davenport,  as a seminary and a school of commerce for men. The current Locust Street campus was established July 5, 1885, with the dedication of Ambrose Hall. In 1927, St. Ambrose was admitted to the North Central Association of Colleges and fully accredited. In 1968, St. Ambrose became fully coeducational.  St. Ambrose still maintains close ties with the Diocese of Davenport.  St. Ambrose has maintained a Region IV Phi Eta Sigma Chapter since Dec 11, 1967.  

In the Fall of 2007 new Phi Eta Sigma member Brian Palmer made a suggestion to improve communications by creating a website for the St. Ambrose University chapter.  This suggestion was extremely well received by the chapters leadership.  Brian was recruited into the chapters Public Relations Subcommittee by it's leader Megan Matyasse and assigned to head up the website project.  Brian worked with Megan, Faculty Advisor Dr. Ryan Dye and subsequently chapter secretary Ashley Jamison-Love to secure permission for the site.  During this time Brian also had several correspondences with the chapters leadership as well as the Phi Eta Sigma national web master and a couple other chapters web masters about creating the web site.   After permission was granted in the Spring of 2007 Brian worked to create the first ever Phi Eta Sigma website for the St. Ambrose University chapter.  Brian extends a huge Thank you to all those mentioned above especially Dr. Dye for inviting Brian to join Phi Eta Sigma, Megan for recruiting Brian into the PR subcommittee and tasking the project to Brian and the web masters of the Phi Eta Sigma National, University of Iowa and Kansas State University chapters for sharing their insight, ideas and knowledge.

On Nov 17, 2008 the St. Ambrose University chapter of Phi Eta Sigma website went online.  The following day National Phi Eta Sigma added a link to their chapters website to the St. Ambrose University chapters new website.  The St. Ambrose University chapter of Phi Eta Sigma gets the additional honor of being the first honor society on campus to have a website.