InterVarsity Christian Fellowship officially began its campus ministry in the United States on November 14, 1941, the day the ministry was incorporated. Campus fellowships had already been active at several U.S. colleges for a few years, however.
In 1941 InterVarsity’s founder, Stacey Woods, directed a three-person staff, operating out of a Chicago office that was shared with the Christian Workers Foundation. Today, 75 years later, InterVarsity’s national office is in Madison, Wisconsin, and staff workers and volunteers across the U.S. total more than 2,000. InterVarsity has 1,011 chapters on 667 U.S. college campuses, working with more than 40,000 core students and faculty.