F.A.Q
What is Ceres?
Why Ceres instead of greek letters?
Why a fraternity instead of a sorority?
Who can join Ceres and how?
Where did Ceres come from?
Ceres is a sisterhood for women who demonstrate qualities of character, scholarship, and professional excellence and generally come from a rural background or share an agricultural interest.
Why Ceres instead of Greek letters?
Our relationship with FarmHouse led us to choose a name without greek letters.
CERES (pronounced "Series"): the Roman Goddess of agriculture (grains, harvest, fruit, flowers, and fertility of the Earth), represents the historical involvement in and the importance of the role of women in agriculture.
Why a fraternity instead of a sorority?
Ceres branched out of FarmHouse so the founders wanted to keep some of those ties and therefore kept the fraternal name.
Merriam-Webster defines fraternity as 1: a group of people associated or formally organized for a common purpose, interest, or pleasure: as a: a fraternal order and d: a student organization for scholastic, professional, or extracurricular activities
Sorority is defined as a women’s student organization formed chiefly for social purposes and having a name consisting of Greek letters. The goals of Ceres are much broader than just a social organization.
Most sororities are actual have fraternity in their name they are just called sororities.
Women of any major who have not been initiated into a sorority and have a GPA of 2.2 or higher. To join you can attend rush or contact someone in the chapter for more information.
The number of women in agriculture has increased over the years. In the past there were FarmHouse "little sister" groups but the increase created a need for a women’s version of the fraternity.
At the 1984 FarmHouse conclave a proposal for the establishment of an agriculture sorority was passed. On October 12, 1985 Ceres International Women’s Fraternity was born when the the first chapter was established at Colorado State University.
For more information see International History or Chapter History