Guide Right

Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on the campus of Indiana University on January 5, 1911. The Fraternity's fundamental purpose is achievement.

Early in the last century, African-American students were actively dissuaded from attending college. Formidable obstacles were erected to prevent the few who were enrolled from assimilating into co-curricular campus life. This ostracism characterized Indiana University in 1911, thus causing Elder W. Diggs, Byron K. Armstrong, and eight other black students to form Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, which remains the only Greek letter organization with its 1st Chapter on the University's campus.

The founders sought a formula that would immediately raise the sights of black collegians and stimulate them to accomplishments higher than they might have imagined.Fashioning achievement as its purpose, Kappa Alpha Psi began uniting college men of culture, patriotism and honor in a bond of fraternity.

The Fraternity began Guide Right, its national social out-reach program, in 1922. Today, National Guide Right programs provide programming, role models, mentors, and financial assistance for at risk youth in communities throughout the country.

In order to serve young men between the ages of 5 and 25, the mission of the Guide Right Committee is to (1) promote goals, aims, and objectives of the fraternity, in a manner that is consistent to and appropriate for our targeted audiences, (2) to uphold the original charge of Guide Right, and (3) to incorporate the necessary tools which will enable us to adapt to today's changing landscape and environment.