Alpha Kappa Pi

Alpha Kappa Pi (ΑΚΠ) was an American collegiate social fraternity founded in 1921 at the Newark College of Engineering. In 1946, it merged with Alpha Sigma Phi.

History

Alpha Kappa Pi was a social fraternity founded on Jan. 1, 1921 at the Newark College of Engineering (now the New Jersey Institute of Technology), under the name Phi Delta Zeta. A committee was formed to complete a plan for nationalization, largely by absorbing local fraternity chapters. It established its Beta chapter in 1926 at Wagner College (in New York), lending the name of the Wagner local chapter to become the name of the new national, now Alpha Kappa Pi, and adding two more chapters that year. Alpha Kappa Pi would go on to form 36 chapters over the next two decades.

Alpha Kappa Pi joined the NIC in 1931.In addition to the absorption of local chapters, three of the remaining chapters of Sigma Delta Rho were added in 1936–37, as were two chapters of disintegrating Theta Nu Epsilon, in 1940. It had a total membership of 3,105 in 1940.

On September 6, 1946, Alpha Kappa Pi merged with Alpha Sigma Phi (ΑΣΦ), mostly resulting in new chapters. There were only two campuses where a local merger was effected, as both groups were active there. Some recently dormant chapters of ΑΚΠ were assigned new names within the Alpha Sigma Phi roster.

Symbols

The fraternity's badge was a seven-pointed gold star in black enamel, decorated with the Greek letters ΑΚΠ above crossed swords. Its colors were Dartmouth green and white. Its flower was the yellow tea rose.

Alpha Kappa Pi's magazine was The Alpha

Chapters

Following is a list of Alpha Kappa Pi chapters. Inactive chapters and institutions are in italics.

See also

• List of social fraternities

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