Category: Chapters

Chapter Planning for 2025 

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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:
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Wishing all our chapters and members a successful and productive spring term, and please contact us with any questions: sdpnational@gmail.com.

Sigma Delta Pi’s Centennial Chapter Photo Competition

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SIGMA DELTA PI’S 8th ANNUAL CHAPTER PHOTO COMPETITION

This year’s contest commemorates the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society’s 100th Birthday (1919-2019)

Rules for submissions:

1)  Photos must be submitted directly to sdpnational@gmail.com by April 15, 2019.  Photos submitted any other way will NOT be considered.

2) Eligible entries must show name of “Sigma Delta Pi” and the Society’s logo within the picture.

3) Competitive entries will reflect the centennial (1919-2019) and mission of Sigma Delta Pi in creative, original, entertaining and coherent ways.

4) Person who submits the photo must be a member (not alumni members) of an active chapter of Sigma Delta.

5) Maximum of two photo entries per chapter.

The winning entry along with 2nd and 3rd place distinctions will be announced by April 22, 2019 via Sigma Delta Pi’s social media accounts (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook).

Sigma Delta Pi’s Chapter Project Grant Program: Now Accepting Applications on Rolling Basis Effective Immediately

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Sigma Delta Pi,
the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society,
announces that its

Chapter Project Grant Program

will now accept applications on a rolling basis effective immediately.
This change will afford our chapters greater flexibility with its
activity planning throughout the year.

For competition rules and the downloadable application form, see   https://sigmadeltapi.org/blog/awards/chapter-project-grants/

Sigma Delta Pi’s Phoenix Award, 2018: Ohio University

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Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate
Hispanic Honor Society, congratulates

Ohio University

The University of Ohio’s Chapter Pi Rho/Tau of Ohio,
the 2018 recipient of the Phoenix Award:

Established in 2012, this award recognizes one chapter for a year of extraordinary and exemplary activity as compared to the previous year(s).

November is National Sigma Delta Pi Charter Month!

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Charter Month commemorates Sigma Delta Pi’s founding on November 14, 1919 at the University of California, Berkeley by graduate student Ruth Barnes. Please plan now to highlight your chapter and its activities during the month of November.  This is also a wonderful opportunity to locate and display your chapter’s charter!

Why not plan an initiation ceremony to celebrate Sigma Delta Pi’s National Charter Month in November?!?!  An induction of new members can be held any time of year, and many chapters hold multiple initiations annually (once received, all orders are processed within 24 hours).

 And don’t forget our 5th annual Facebook Birthday Cake Picture Competition to celebrate National Charter Month and Sigma Delta Pi’s 98th birthday. 

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To enter:

1) During the 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 98th b-day.

3) It must be an actual cake that displays the Sigma Delta Pi logo.

4) 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.”

We will post each entry to our national Sigma Delta Pi Facebook page: www.facebook.com/sigmadeltapi. Chapters must NOT post their pictures directly to this page, but rather e-mail them to sdpnational@gmail.com as specified above.

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 certificate.  Cakes will be judged on artistic merit and originality.  The winning chapter will receive a $100 credit that may be applied to future orders placed with the national office.

Sigma Delta Pi: November is National Charter Month; 5th Annual Facebook Birthday Cake Picture Competition

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November is National Sigma Delta Pi Charter Month!

Cake for Blog

Charter Month commemorates Sigma Delta Pi’s founding on November 14, 1919 at the University of California, Berkeley by graduate student Ruth Barnes. Please plan now to highlight your chapter and its activities during the month of November.  This is also a wonderful opportunity to locate and display your chapter’s charter!

Why not plan an initiation ceremony to celebrate Sigma Delta Pi’s National Charter Month in November?!?!  An induction of new members can be held any time of year, and many chapters hold multiple initiations annually (once received, all orders are processed within 24 hours). 

And don’t forget our 5th annual Facebook Birthday Cake Picture Competition to celebrate National Charter Month and Sigma Delta Pi’s 98th birthday. 

To enter:

1) During the month of November, chapters are invited to e-mail a picture of their unique Sigma Delta Pi b-day cakes tosdpnational@gmail.com:

2) The pictured cake must include a reference, etched in icing on the cake, to Sigma Delta Pi’s 98th b-day.

3) It must be an actual cake that displays the Sigma Delta Pi logo.

4) 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.”

We will post each entry to our national Sigma Delta Pi Facebook page: www.facebook.com/sigmadeltapi. Chapters must NOT post their pictures directly to this page, but rather e-mail them to sdpnational@gmail.com as specified above.

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 certificate.  Cakes will be judged on artistic merit and originality.  The winning chapter will receive a $100 credit that may be applied to future orders placed with the national office.

Call for Student Papers 

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Please relay to all your Sigma Delta Pi chapter’s active student members:

 Call for Student Papers
for Sigma Delta Pi’s 6th Annual “Best Practices”  Session
to be held at the 100th Conference of the
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Salamanca, Spain
June 25-28, 2018

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 focuses on Sigma Delta Pi activities at your local institution.  We strongly encourage proposals from student members who are actively involved in initiating, organizing, executing and/or participating in Sigma Delta Pi activities at their institutions.

By October 31, 2017, please e-mail the following to Sigma Delta Pi’s Executive Director (delmastromp@cofc.edu):

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)

3-4 papers will be selected from the submissions received, and the student presenters will be notified in early December 2017.

A student whose paper is selected for presentation will receive a $1000 travel stipend plus paid conference registration courtesy of Sigma Delta Pi and a complimentary awards banquet ticket and student membership in AATSP courtesy of the AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese).  However, the same student is expected to secure travel-related funding for all remaining expenses through his/her 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 $1000 travel stipend and conference registration per selected student.

For information on the AATSP conference in June 2018, please visit the website: www.aatsp.org.

Any questions should be directed to the Executive Director: delmastromp@cofc.edu

St. John’s University and Western Illinois University Named Co-Recipients of the 2017 Frida Kahlo Award

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Sigma Delta Pi is pleased to announce that the Epsilon Kappa Chapter of St. John’s University and the Alpha Alpha Lambda Chapter at Western Illinois University have been named co-recipients of the 2017 Frida Kahlo Award for their outstanding websites.