Delta Kappa Phi (ΔΚΦ) is an American professional–social collegiate fraternity established in 1899.

Delta Kappa Phi was founded as a professional textile fraternity by students at the Philadelphia Textile Institute (later Philadelphia University and now Thomas Jefferson University) on November 16, 1899.

"[3] Its founders were Leon H. Buck, J. Paul Jones, Harris A. Soloman, and Charles E.

Its second chapter, Beta, was chartered in 1902 at the Lowell Technological Institute (now the University of Massachusetts Lowell, or UMass Lowell), and the organization gradually established Delta at New Bedford Institute of Textiles and Technology (now part of UMass Dartmouth), Gamma at the Rhode Island School of Design, Kappa at North Carolina State University, and Theta at Georgia Tech.

In 1980, Steve Call, a pledge of Delta Kappa Phi at the University of Massachusetts Lowell died after falling ill as the result of an intense program of hazing-related calisthenics he had been required to perform.