November 5, 2025
Dedicating the House of Alpha Leadership Institute on Oct. 18 are, left to right, Alpha Light Foundation board members Roger Bailey ’86 and Nigel Telman ’86; President Michael I. Kotlikoff (center); Robert F. Smith ’85 (center right), founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners; and Dr. Dennis Mitchell ’84 (far right), founding president of Alpha Light Fund. Credit: Jason Koski/Cornell University
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New leadership institute anchors nation’s first Black fraternity
The first Black Greek organization in the nation is celebrating a new milestone in its illustrious history. Alumni brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha’s Alpha chapter, founded at Cornell in 1906, unveiled a new leadership institute and student residence, inspired by the fraternity’s founding principles and honoring its 119-year legacy at Cornell.