We welcome our Sigma Delta Pi members and chapter advisers to 2025!
As you plan your chapter’s activities for this spring term, please remember these important resources and opportunities: (If a link is inoperable, please copy and past url into your browser)
Undergraduate Study Abroad (Feb 1), Internship (March 1) and Graduate Research Grant (March 1) Award Programs for SUMMER 2025 and 2025-26 Academic Year!
A Sigma Delta Pi chapter adviser who is a faculty member of Spanish and who has conducted at least one initiation ceremony of new Sigma Delta Pi members within the past two years prior to the submission of their manuscript proposal to Albatros Ediciones.
The candidate must be the current chapter adviser at their institution when they submit their proposal for consideration to Albatros Ediciones.
The candidate’s manuscript must be accepted for publication by Albatros Ediciones while they are still the active Sigma Delta Pi chapter adviser at their institution.
Once their manuscript is accepted for publication by Albatros Ediciones, the candidate must send a copy of that acceptance within 2 weeks to delmastromp@cofc.edu to be considered for this award.
The candidate whose manuscript is accepted for publication by Albatros Ediciones agrees to publish their work with Albatros Ediciones AND submits their final work to Albatros Ediciones as contractually agreed.
Submitted manuscripts should be complete and range between 300-350 pages, or approximately 125,000 words.
Not eligible:
past chapter advisers.
chapter members who are NOT active chapter advisers.
members of Sigma Delta Pi’s national Executive Council.
chapter advisers whose work will be published by any publisher besides Albatros Ediciones.
The recipient of the Premio Albatros will be selected by Sigma Delta Pi and Albatros Ediciones among all qualified candidates whose proposals have been accepted for publication by Albatros Ediciones.
The $1500 subvention (which represents 50% of the total subvention required for publication after acceptance) would be issued directly to Albatros Ediciones after confirmation of receipt of the final manuscript for publication.
Only manuscripts published with Albatros Ediciones are eligible.
Manuscripts may be submitted year round and are evaluated on a rolling basis.
The recipient of the Premio Albatros will receive an award plaque with a press release issued to their home institution.
The awardee must also agree to make a presentation on their manuscript in an international, virtual event co-organized by Sigma Delta Pi and Albatros Ediciones.
Only one Premio Albatros per academic year (July 1-June 30) may be granted.
For manuscript submission guidelines, please contact Albatros Ediciones:
Stay tuned for other upcoming events that are virtual and open to all Sigma Delta Pi members and guests. See our national calendar for updated programming: https://sigmadeltapi.org/sigma-delta-pi-calendar/
Congratulations to Chapter Alpha Alpha Gamma of Southern Virginia University, this year’s winner of Sigma Delta Pi’s 11th Annual Birthday Cake Photo Competition to commemorate the Society’s 105th anniversary:
Sigma Delta Pi featured its partner, The Pulsera Project (https://www.pulseraproject.org/), in a remote Zoom event to commemorate the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society’s 105th birthday on Thursday, November 14 at 4:30pm.
Learn about The Pulsera Project, its mission, its partnership with Sigma Delta Pi, and how your local chapter can become directly involved with pulseras.
November 2024 marks Sigma Delta Pi’s 105th B-day and National Charter Month
During all of November and to commemorate Sigma Delta Pi’s National Charter Month, complimentary copies of T. Earle Hamilton’s 1995 Sigma Delta Pi: A Brief History, 1919-1994 (218 pp) and LaPrade and Del Mastro’s2005 Recounting a Decade, 1995-2004 (37 pp) will be included with each purchased, signed copy of Del Mastro’s 2020 book Sigma Delta Pi: Rediscovering a Century: 1919-2019, available at Sigma Delta Pi’s national website: https://sigmadeltapi.org/sigma-delta-pi-history-book/.
How is your chapter commemorating Sigma Delta Pi’s 105th birthday in November?
Why not locate and display your chapter’s charter?:
If you have not yet held a fall 2024 initiation of new members, why not plan an initiation ceremony in November to celebrate Sigma Delta Pi’s 105th B-day and National Charter Month?
1) During this month of November, chapters are invited to e-mail a picture of their unique Sigma Delta Pi b-day cakes to sdpnational@gmail.com: 2) The pictured cake must include a reference, etched in icing on the cake, to Sigma Delta Pi’s 105th b-day. 3) It must be an actual cake that displays the Sigma Delta Pi logo. 4) Student members must contribute to the design of the cake. 5) For the accompanying “description,” include in the text of the e-mail the name of the originating chapter and institution. For example: “Eta Upsilon, Illinois State University.”
Each entry will be posted to our national Sigma Delta Pi Facebook page: www.facebook.com/sigmadeltapi. Pictures posted directly to this page will be disqualified; pictures must be e-mailed as specified above to sdpnational@gmail.com.
The winning picture will be featured during the entire month of December at Sigma Delta Pi’s FB page, and the winning chapter will receive an award plaque. Cakes will be judged on artistic merit, originality and compliance with submission rules noted above. The winning chapter will receive a $100 credit that may be applied to future orders placed for memberships and other materials offered directly by the national office.
Frida Kahlo Award
Outstanding chapter submissions that are accepted by the Executive Committee for inclusion in Sigma Delta Pi’s Museo Virtual Ruth H. Barnes will be considered for the Frida Kahlo Award. For additional details to include submission criteria, please visit: https://sigmadeltapi.org/premio-frida-kahlo/
This spring, Sigma Delta Pi’s National Executive Committee plans to appoint additional members of our Board of Student Advisers (BSA). Established in 2016, the BSA provides national leadership opportunities to our undergraduate and graduate student members of Sigma Delta Pi. For details, please review the BSA charter.
Active student members of Sigma Delta Pi who are interested in becoming members of our Board of Student Advisers should submit to sdpnational@gmail.com the following information by Friday, November 1, 2024:
Plan now to join Sigma Delta Pi in Panama City, Panama for our triennial convention and other member-centered events,including our annual members/guest-only reception hosted by
Stay tuned also for other upcoming events that are virtual and open to all Sigma Delta Pi members and guests. See our national calendar for updated programming: https://sigmadeltapi.org/sigma-delta-pi-calendar/
