 As of fall 2019 there were 230 active TKE chapters and colonies.In 1928 TKE became one of the first fraternities to ban hazing, and also never had a racially exclusive policy for membership.On January 10, 1899, Charles Roy Atkinson, Clarence Arthur Mayer, James Carson McNutt, Joseph Lorenzo Settles, and Owen Ison Truitt met at 504 East Locust Street in Bloomington, Illinois to draw up the first constitution for a new fraternity at Illinois Wesleyan University.