Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc. is a historically Latino based fraternity founded at the University of Iowa in 1986. Throughout our 22-year history, our diverse culture membership has made SLB a powerhouse in the fraternal world.

Based on the principles of brotherhood, scholarship, community service, and culture awareness, Lambda Beta men strive to become leaders on their campuses, in their communities, and their chosen professions.


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The Victor Correa CPR Awareness Day was created in honer of Brother Victor “Ziggy” Correa Ortiz. Correa was born and raised in and came to the United States to earn his degree in engineering at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. As a freshman and newly inducted brother, Correa went back to Puerto Rico to visit his parents. Unfortunately, during that winter Correa drowned while wading off the shores of Puerto Rico. Bystanders were not informed on how to administer CPR at the time to save his life. Today, brother of SLB are encouraged to become CPR certified and also provide an opportunity for members of their communities to be certified through the Victor Correa CPR Awareness Day (November).

Brothers of SLB train and serve through the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute in the seven-week Collegiate Leadership Development Program. The program is an interactive, bilateral, policy-oriented training program for Latino student leaders, university staff, faculty, and administrators. The program is designed to focus on how to formulate, exercise, an influence policy. Given the setting, this policy analysis program focuses on university policies pertaining to the outreach, recruitment and retention of Latino students; the recruitment and retention of Latino staff, faculty and administrators; beginning or expanding of Latino studies curriculum; financial aid; involvement in student government; support for Latino student organizations; and financial literacy. SLB also has the Sigma Lambda Beta Educational Foundation established to provide funding for educational and leadership development programs.

This program is a mentoring and tutoring program that is geared to reaching out to middle school and high school students and encourage them to seek out a higher education. It assists students by preparing them for college. Informing students about financial aid, helping them with college entrance essays and applications, and following up with them constantly throughout their pre-college educational career are a few of the ways EIF creates an positive outlook on college.

National Philanthropies

V. Correa CPR Awareness Day

Health Education & The Community

Collegiate Leadership Development

Latinos, Politics & Policy

Local Philanthropy

Education is Freedom

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