Lambda Chi Alpha rechartered at Texas State in spring 2026, with the fraternity returning to campus after just over a year of rebuilding.

Lambda Chi Alpha is a national Christian fraternity that restarted its Texas State chapter in 2025. Students and alumni have worked diligently for the past year to create a new and positive culture and earn its charter, an official recognition as a chapter by the national office.

At an event honoring the chapter officially becoming chartered, receiving national recognition, on April 18, speakers recognized the work active members have done to reestablish Lambda Chi at Texas State by citing one of the ideals on their crest, “not without labor”. Rodney Brown, Texas State and Lambda Chi alumnus, gave opening remarks echoing that sentiment.

“When I started thinking about you guys and what you have accomplished, it’s been not without labor,” Brown said. “That’s been that theme.”

Lambda Chi was established at Texas State in 1966 as the first national fraternity on campus with the values of LDRSHIP: Loyalty, duty, respect, service and stewardship, honor, integrity and personal courage. It existed on campus from 1966 to 2012, with an attempt to come back from 2017 to 2019 as well, but it was put on probation for a five-year period after undergoing scrutiny.

Lambda Chi left Texas State’s campus in 2019 due to hazing allegations, which this group of active members has worked hard to put in their past by working closely with the national office and achieving the highest grade point average of any registered fraternity in Spring 2025. Now Lambda Chi Alpha works with multiple philanthropies, including the American Red Cross and Movember, a men’s health nonprofit.

Cody Huffman, alumni advisor for Lambda Chi and member of the group that tried to revive Lambda Chi in 2017, said the Lambda Chi men now have a few key advantages and goals that the 2017 group didn’t. He said alumni involvement and the overall determination of Lambda Chi members to improve from previous revival attempts gives him hope for the future.

“It’s just like really cool to see that they aren’t discouraged by anything,” Huffman said. “They’re kind of like ‘Okay, maybe that could’ve been better,’ or ‘This could’ve been planned more effectively,’ but hey, we get back up and dust our knees off and get back out there and try again.'”

Bob Covey, Texas State and Lambda Chi alumnus, said the member’s passion to establish themselves, from a collective grade point average above 3.0 to a willingness to grow when new ideas are presented, is what got them to this point.

“I think [the members] have got a real good grasp of it right now,” Covey said. “And I think there’s a real desire from their part to make this thing successful.”

Evan Flores, Lambda Chi president and business management junior, is the second Lambda Chi president since the fraternity restarted in January 2025. The first, Dominick Rome, was chosen by the national office and decided not to rerun for the position. Flores’ job involves meeting with the national office weekly to report how the chapter is doing, and he said they were often ahead of other chapters looking to be chartered. The national office praised the chapter’s dedication to philanthropy.

Flores said establishing Lambda Chi’s Texas State chapter took deciding who the members wanted to be for the community, not just who nationals wanted them to be.

“The values and the symbols and the letters are given to us, but we have to find our own purpose on campus,” Flores said. “We knew there was a gap where good men could come in and change campus essentially.”

Trevor Nicholas, an organizational sales manager for Lambda Chi’s national office, presented the charter to the Texas State chapter on April 18 after working with the group throughout its re‑chartering process. Nicholas said Texas State’s Lambda Chi chapter showed initiative from winning awards to participation in philanthropies, such as easter egg hunts at local schools and blood drives for the American Red Cross.

“I think this group really shows that when you’re starting something new, you can’t just sit on your butt and do nothing and expect it to grow,” Nicholas said. “You have to say yes to things and … you have to will it to happen, and this group did a great job there.”

Texas State’s Lambda Chi chapter plans to continue to recruit and grow its brotherhood, as well as work on philanthropic endeavors.