Kappa Alpha Theta was founded in 1870 by Bettie Locke, Alice Allen Brant, Bettie Tipton Lindsey and Hannah Fitch Shaw at Indiana Asbury College. Theta provides growth and opportunities for young women that promote academic excellence and the widest influence for good, namely Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation. Fraternity Purpose: The intellectual ambition of
the Fraternity shall be the attainment of highest scholarship. The social aim of the Fraternity shall be to exercise the widest influence for good. The moral aim of the Fraternity shall be the standard of love.