Five aspiring young men felt the need to fulfill a void at UNCG. In the spring of 1988 the mission was complete. Rho Beta was established and operating its various community programs that set the pace of fraternities on this campus and the state to the present day.

 

Rho Beta set out not to follow in the footsteps of it predecessors, but to embolden a path of its own. The chapter laid out programs, social events, community functions and a host of other agendas. Two months after Rho Beta was founded the chapter won its claim to fame: First Place in the Spring Fling Step Show! Rho Beta received awards from their peers, Sigma National and Regional Offices, and the National Pan-Hellenic Council awards for most outstanding service at UNCG two years back to back (88 and 89), Rho Beta was Regional Chapter of the Year. Rho Beta also won an Honorable Mention at the National Conclave held in 1989. Rho Beta received the 2003 Outstanding Community Service Award for the Mini-Triad Health Fair (co-sponsored with Association of Nursing). Rho Beta Chapter has also won the Bigger and Better Business Award for Black Dollar Day at the National Conclave 2003. 

 

Rho Beta was responsible for founding the chapter of NAACP on the campus of UNCG, and being the only fraternity constitutionally bound to a sister organization; Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Rho Beta assisted in the founding of the Omega Nu chapter of Zeta Phi Beta in March 1989!