The new fraternity was much like Phi Beta Kappa except that its purpose was social more than literary. Although the university opposed the new society, students encouraged the new fraternity and created two more the Sigma Phi on March 4, 1827 and Delta Phi on November 17, 1827. These three fraternities formed the Union Triad and was the big reason for the expansion of the American college fraternity. All of the women's groups were called fraternities in the beginning because no other word existed. Then in 1882, Gamma Phi Beta was named a "sorority", a coined word suggested by their advisor who was a professor of Latin, and who thought the word "fraternity" wasn’t right for a group of ladies. However, the Greek-letter societies for women had already been incorporated as fraternities.
In 1909, the men's groups formed the Inter-fraternity Council (IFC) aimed at the same goals as the NPC. The men, too had held several previous meetings to discuss inter-fraternity rivalry versus cooperation. Today, the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) sponsors a variety of fraternity programming aimed at educating Greek undergraduates on topics such as alcohol awareness, inter-fraternity recruitment, membership education, and other important