The Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) fraternity focuses on leadership development to help college men develop their ability to be effective leaders for a lifetime.

Alpha Tau Omega began as an idea in the mind of a young Civil War veteran who wanted peace and reconciliation. His name was Otis Allan Glazebrook. His people were defeated, many of their cities burned, much of their countryside ravaged.

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Alpha Tau Omega was the first fraternity founded on a set of new ideals, and not in response to or opposition of another fraternity. ATO was the first fraternity founded as a national organization, not a local or sectional fellowship.

“As iron sharpens iron,” ATO challenges you to be better than you were yesterday. Alpha Tau Omega is known as America’s Leadership Development Fraternity because of our strong emphasis on preparing our members to be leaders on their campus and in the community.

To bind men together in a brotherhood based upon eternal and immutable principles, with a bond as strong as right itself and as lasting as humanity; to know no North, no South, no East, no West, but to know man as man, to teach that true men the world over should stand together and contend for supremacy of good over evil; to teach, not politics ...

“Alpha Tau Omega holds before the young men of the country an ideal and something greater than a mere intellectual ideal. Alpha Tau Omega stands for heart as well as head. It has given men a true ideal of life.” — Otis Allan Glazebrook

“If my life’s history be written, the truth will be that its most splendid service was performed through Alpha Tau Omega. Born in 1845, Otis Allan Glazebrook, at the time this picture was taken, had risen to the rank of Cadet Adjutant at VMI.

Alpha Tau Omega fills that gap. Nearly 10,000 undergraduate Taus benefit from award-winning National Fraternity programs that provide advanced leadership and undergraduate insights typically not available to college students.

“To know no North, no South, no East, no West, but to know man as man” is an aspirational phrase within the Creed of Alpha Tau Omega. The Creed, which can be recited by virtually every member of the Fraternity, sets an expectation for what ATOs honor, including the uniqueness and value of every Brother.