Alpha Kappa Pi


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

Alpha Kappa Pi was a social fraternity founded on Jan. 1, 1921 at the Newark College of Engineering, 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, 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.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, Alpha Kappa Pi merged with Alpha Sigma Phi, 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.
ChapterCharter date and rangeInstitutionLocationStatus
Alpha – New Jersey Institute of TechnologyNewark, New JerseyMerged
Beta – Wagner CollegeStaten Island, New YorkMerged
Gamma – Stevens Institute of TechnologyHoboken, New JerseyMerged
Delta – Polytechnic InstituteBrooklyn, New YorkMerged
Epsilon – 1928Ellsworth CollegeIowa Falls, IowaInactive
Zeta – 1935Coe CollegeCedar Rapids, IowaWithdrew
Eta – Presbyterian CollegeClinton, South CarolinaMerged
Theta – 1938Columbia UniversityNew York City, New YorkInactive
Iota – Mount Union CollegeAlliance, OhioMerged
Kappa – 1935; 1939–1940Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MassachusettsInactive
Lambda – Bethany CollegeBethany, West VirginiaMerged
Mu – Marshall UniversityHuntington, West VirginiaMerged
Nu – Lehigh UniversityBethlehem, PennsylvaniaMerged
Xi – 1943North Carolina State UniversityRaleigh, North CarolinaInactive
Omicron – Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PennsylvaniaMerged
Pi – 1936University of New HampshireDurham, New HampshireInactive
Rho – Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick, New JerseyMerged
Sigma – University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChampaign and Urbana, IllinoisMerged
Tau – Tufts UniversityMedford, MassachusettsMerged
Upsilon –1938Centre CollegeDanville, KentuckyInactive
Phi – 1939St. John's CollegeAnnapolis, MarylandInactive
Chi – Wake Forest UniversityWinston-Salem, North CarolinaMerged
Psi – West Virginia Wesleyan CollegeBuckhannon, West VirginiaMerged
Alpha Alpha – Hartwick CollegeOneonta, New YorkMerged
Alpha Beta – Trine UniversityAngola, IndianaMerged
Alpha Gamma – Franklin & Marshall CollegeLancaster, PennsylvaniaMerged
Alpha Delta – University of ToledoToledo, OhioMerged
Alpha Epsilon – University of CincinnatiCincinnati, OhioMerged
Alpha Zeta – Wayne State UniversityDetroit, MichiganMerged
Alpha Eta – Milton CollegeMilton, WisconsinMerged
Alpha Theta – Wofford CollegeSpartanburg, South CarolinaMerged
Alpha Iota – American UniversityWashington, D.C.Merged
Alpha Kappa – Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTroy, New YorkMerged
Alpha Lambda – Ohio Northern UniversityAda, OhioMerged
Alpha Mu – 1943Carthage CollegeKenosha, WisconsinInactive
Alpha Nu – University of ConnecticutStorrs, ConnecticutMerged