November 14, 2025 marks Sigma Delta Pi’s 106th Birthday
Mark your calendars for Friday,November 14 at 4:30pm (EDT) for the next virtual event co-sponsored by Sigma Delta Pi and Albatros Ediciones and featuring a presentation by Dr. Charles Moore, the 2025 recipient of the Albatros Award for his upcoming book:
El legado de la amistad petrarquista en la poesía hispanoamericana.
October 2 marks National Poetry Day in the United States, and we are celebrating by reuniting with the distinguished Latin American poets who participated in the Sigma Delta Pi/AATSP poetry plenary at our 107th Conference in Panama.
To mark the occasion, each poet has shared a poem along with classroom-ready activities—access them here. The week will culminate in a live panel discussion on Thursday, October 2 at 4:00 PM ET, moderated by Professor Mark P. Del Mastro, Executive Committee Member of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society.
We invite all poets, future poets, poetry lovers—and especially students—to join us for a dynamic Q&A with the poets about their work and the role of poetry in language education.
November 2025 marks Sigma Delta Pi’s 106th Birthday 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 106th birthday in November?
Why not locate and display your chapter’s charter?:
If you have not yet held a fall 2025 initiation of new members, why not plan an initiation ceremony in November to celebrate Sigma Delta Pi’s 106th Birthday and National Charter Month?
Mark your calendars for Friday,November 14 at 4:30pm (EDT) for Sigma Delta Pi’s next virtual event co-sponsored by Sigma Delta Pi and Albatros Ediciones and featuring a presentation by Dr. Charles Moore, the 2025 recipient of the Albatros Award for his upcoming book:
El legado de la amistad petrarquista en la poesía hispanoamericana.
2013 Winner: Eta Upsilon, Illinois State University
TO ENTER:
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 106th Birthday. 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/
Call for Student Papers for Sigma Delta Pi’s 14th Annual “Best Practices” Session at the 108th Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Orlando, Florida July 8-11, 2026
Student Members of active Sigma Delta Pi chapters are invited to submit a proposal for a 15-minute presentation on your chapter’s “best practices” that focus on Sigma Delta Pi activities at your local institution. We strongly encourage proposals from current student members/officers who are actively involved in initiating, organizing, executing, and/or participating in Sigma Delta Pi activities at their institutions. Members who have already graduated at the time of application may not apply.
1) your full name 2) name of your Sigma Delta Pi chapter and college/university 3) name of your chapter adviser 4) title of your proposed presentation 5) summary of your proposed presentation (no longer than 150 words)
Final decisions will be communicated in November 2025.
Each student whose paper is selected for presentation will receive a $300 travel stipend plus paid conference registration (early bird rate) courtesy of Sigma Delta Pi and complimentary student membership in AATSP, courtesy of the AATSP. However, the same student is expected to secure travel-related funding for all remaining expenses through their college/university, either via the academic departments, the dean’s or provost’s office, the office of student activities, or other institutional sources. Colleges/universities often provide funding for students presenting at conferences. Your chapter adviser can assist you with exploring these funding options. Sigma Delta Pi is unable to provide monetary support beyond the $300 travel stipend and conference registration (early bird rate) per selected student.
For information on the AATSP conference in summer 2026, please visit the website: www.aatsp.org.
These beautiful, uniquely designed pulseras are hand-crafted by Central American artists employed by The Pulsera Project with the goals of creating meaningful fair trade jobs and supporting communities. Sigma Delta Pi is proud to support The Pulsera Project and their employed artisans through this invaluable partnership. With the purchase of your own Sigma Delta Pi pulsera, you will assist the Pulsera Project with their important mission.
For more on the Pulsera Project, and how your chapter might become directly involved with a pulsera sale through the Pulsera Project, please visit www.pulseraproject.org.
The following Sigma Delta Pi chapters hosted their own Pulsera sales projects in AY 2024-25:
Davidson College (Chapter Omega) Saginaw Valley State University (Omega Kappa) Southern Illinois U Edwardsville (Alpha Alpha Epsilon)
“Transformative Spanish Language Programs: Preparing the Workforce for Tomorrow”
CFP(call for proposals) TRANSFORMATIVE SPANISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMS: PREPARING THE WORKFORCE FOR TOMORROW
Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, and the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española are pleased to announce plans for their second annual panel at the 108th AATSP conference in Orlando, Florida (July 8-11, 2026) to highlight innovative higher education (2-year and 4-year colleges/universities) programs in the U.S. that have managed to bolster their class enrollment and better prepare students for employment after graduation. Special consideration will be given to Spanish language programs that are responding to the national enrollment cliff, declining language program enrollments, academic program ROI (“return on investment”), and other regional and national trends.
Proposals should include the following:
Panelist’s full name, title, institutional affiliation, e-mail, and professional bio of no more than 150 words.
Abstract of talk not to exceed 150 words.
Send as a link (no attachments) to a shared (e.g., GoogleDrive, OneDrive, etc) MS Word document by October 1, 2025 to Mark P. Del Mastro at delmastromp@cofc.eduand Nuria Morgado at nuria.morgado@csi.cuny.edu. Please ensure there are no access restrictions (persons or time-limits) on the shared document.
Panelists of selected proposals must commit to presenting in person at the 108th AATSP annual conference in Orlando, FL at the end of June/early July 2026 (exact dates forthcoming). Each panelist will speak for 5-6 minutes followed by an open discussion with the audience and other panelists. Presentations are brief to encourage ample conversation/engagement.
Longer versions of the final presentations will be published in an online Transformative Spanish Language Programs “manual” that will be updated yearly and made available exclusively to both Sigma Delta Pi and ANLE members.
Sigma Delta Pi is pleased to co-organize with Albatros Ediciones virtual academic panels of our members (active student, honorary and/or chapter advisers), and hereby requests panel proposals for consideration. Sigma Delta Pi and Albatros Ediciones may host a maximum of two (2) virtual panels per academic year, and proposals must be sent to sdpnational@gmail.com as MS Word attachment to include:
Full name of person proposing the virtual panel (must be a confirmed member of Sigma Delta Pi)
Title of proposed panel and detailed description
Full names and institutional affiliations of organizer(s) and proposed panelists
Confirmation of Sigma Delta Pi membership of participants; organizers/proposers MUST be members of Sigma Delta Pi
Titles and brief description of each presentation
Parameters:
No more than 10 panelists per event with presentations of no more than 10 minutes each
Accepted panels will be scheduled during an evening or weekend within 12 months of acceptance and in coordination with the organizers/proposers
All organizers and panelists must commit to participating in the event
Scheduling will be done in coordination with Sigma Delta Pi’s Executive Committee and Albatros Ediciones
Proposals will be accepted on a rolling bases (no deadlines) and will be evaluated by the Executive Committee and Albatros Ediciones, which reserve the right to decline any proposal
At its 30th Triennial Convention last week on June 26, 2025 in Panama City, Panama during the 107th annual AATSP conference, Sigma Delta Pi announced its national chapter and adviser awardees for 2025:
Sigma Delta Pi is pleased to announce that Dr. Charles Moore, chapter adviser and professor of Spanish at Gardner-Webb University,
is the 2025 recipient of the Premio Albatros, which may be granted yearly to one Sigma Delta Pi chapter adviser whose manuscript is accepted and published by Albatros Ediciones.
Sigma Delta Pi will provide a subvention to Albatros Ediciones in the amount of $1,500 to support the publication Dr. Moore’s book: El legado de la amistad petrarquista en la poesía hispanoamericana.
