History
-The Roots
The Fellowship of Kappa Sigma commenced over 600 years ago when students of the University of Bologna, Italy, united for their mutual protection. These students were five disciples of a renowned Greek scholar and statesman teaching there. They considered themselves as 
sons of this father. He was known as Manuel Chrysoloras. It was these sons of Manuel Chrysoloras, these brothers, that joined together to create Kappa Sigma.
-Expanding Outwards
Tradition holds that through the Renaissance, Kappa Sigma prevailed at other notable Universities of Europe. However by the middle of the 19th century, the Order was nearly inactive. This was the calling for the tradition endowed by Chrysoloras and his disciples at the emergence of the Renaissance to extend to America.
In the mid-1800s, an American traveler in Europe was told by his noble host, "My colors fade...for the want of wearers, " implying at the near still of Kappa Sigma. From that charge to never allow Chrysoloras's legacy to fade, Kappa Sigma came to North America.
-The North American Founding
On a cold December evening--December 10, 1869, five friends attending the University of Virginia met at 46 East Lawn to draft a constitution and found the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. They were William Grigsby McCormick, George Miles Arnold, John Covert Boyd, Edmund Law Rogers, and Frank Courtney Nicodemus--also known as "The Five Friends and Brothers." Deriving from the traditions of Chrysoloras and his disciples at Bologna, these five friends obligated themselves together by an oath and upheld their union with secrecy. It was this Ritual that made them brothers, restoring gleam to the colors long-fading in Europe.
-Continuing Forward
Over time, Kappa Sigma chapters spread across the nation, producing good men with an indelible bond between one another. In 1880, Kappa Sigma established Alpha-Chi Chapter at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois. This was the first northern chapter of a fraternity of southern origin. Five years later, expansion into the North began in earnest with Chi Chapter at Purdue University in 1885, and Psi Chapter at the University of Maine in 1886. Expansion to the West started in 1884 with Tau Chapter at the University of Texas and reached the Pacific coast in 1899 with Beta-Zeta Chapter at Stanford University.
In 1924, Kappa Sigma chartered its first Canadian chapter, Delta-Epsilon, at the University of Toronto in Ontario, and became an international Fraternity. With the acquisition in 1966 of International Memorial Headquarters at Charlottesville, Virginia, near the birthplace of American Kappa Sigma, a new and progressive concept of a professional staff developed. At this point, the Fraternity began experiencing growth that had not been seen since its inception nearly a hundred years prior, and has continued to this day.
Today, Kappa Sigma comprises over 200 chapters and colonies in both the United States and Canada, with over 200,000 men. Kappa Sigma is the sixth largest fraternity and has approximately 150,000 brothers in North America. The list of initiates is not only long, but also distinguished...
-Recent Happenings
The Fraternity now exists now not only as singular chapters, but as an institution that has many mechanisms to support itself and foster growth, coordinated by the hundreds of volunteers nationwide. Every odd year the Fraternity stages a Grand Conclave for all initiates to come together and celebrate the accomplishments of the Brotherhood. Recent Conclaves have taken place in New Orleans, Phoenix, Memphis and Tampa. At these conventions, as with the regional Leadership Conferences that take place in off years, undergraduates are instructed in basic chapter operations and encouraged to share ideas in order to build a stronger presence at each and every campus where Kappa Sigma is located. These educational programs are funded by the Kappa Sigma Endowment Fund, which also disperses $250,000 in scholarships each year to deserving undergraduates through the the Scholarship/Leadership Program.
It is evident from Kappa Sigma's past that the Fraternity is focused on being the top such organization in the nation through building an educated brotherhood of young men with the leadership skills necessary to succeed in all aspects of life.
-Arrival at the University of South Florida
The Kappa Sigma Fraternity reached the University of South Florida on March 23, 1968. As being the 186th to be established, we were designated, "Kappa-Delta" chapter.