Category: Embassy of Spain’s Education Office

Sigma Delta Pi Partners with Education Office of the Embassy of Spain: Priority Consideration for Sigma Delta Pi Members Applying for NALCAP, March 26 Application Deadline

Posted on by Sigma Delta Pi / La Sociedad Honoraria de la Lengua Española in Embassy of Spain’s Education Office, Member Benefits, NALCAP

For the 3rd consecutive year, Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society,
has partnered with the Embassy of Spain’s Education Office
to offer priority consideration to Sigma Delta Pi members who are eligible and apply for NALCAP, the North American Language and Culture Assistants Program.

For program details: https://www.educacionyfp.gob.es/eeuu/convocatorias-programas/convocatorias-eeuu/nalcap.html
(copy and paste url into browser if link is disabled by your institution’s security software). 

Applications deadline: March 26, 2025.

For priority consideration, the following is required:

  • NALCAP applications must include a signed letter from the chapter adviser that verifies:
    1) the applicant is a Sigma Delta Pi member;
    2) the applicant’s chapter is active and in good standing.
  • the chapter adviser must complete the following online form: https://forms.gle/shAAhpEKXP9Edju9A
    (copy and paste url into browser if link is disabled by your institution’s security software)

Sigma Delta Pi Partners with Education Office of the Embassy of Spain: Priority Consideration for Sigma Delta Pi Members Applying for NALCAP

Posted on by Sigma Delta Pi / La Sociedad Honoraria de la Lengua Española in Embassy of Spain’s Education Office, NALCAP

For the 2nd consecutive year, Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, has partnered with the Embassy of Spain’s Education Office to offer priority consideration to Sigma Delta Pi members who are eligible and apply for 

NALCAP, the North American Language and Culture Assistants Program.

For program details: https://www.educacionyfp.gob.es/eeuu/convocatorias-programas/convocatorias-eeuu/nalcap.html

(copy and paste url into browser if link is disabled by your institution’s security software). 

Application period: February 9, 2024 @ 12:00am to
April 4, 2024 @ 11:50pm local Madrid, Spain time.

For priority consideration, the following is required:

  • NALCAP applications must include a signed letter from the chapter adviser that verifies the applicant is a Sigma Delta Pi member and that the applicant’s chapter is active and in good standing.
  • the chapter adviser must complete the following online form: https://forms.gle/ZK5YhqPrVoZc4HPcA
    (copy and paste url into browser if link is disabled by your institution’s security software)

November 2023: Sigma Delta Pi’s 104th B-Day, National Charter Month, 10th Annual B-Day Cake Photo Competition, Frida Kahlo Award

Posted on by Sigma Delta Pi / La Sociedad Honoraria de la Lengua Española in Birthday Cake Competition, Embassy of Spain’s Education Office, Museo Virtual

History Book Special Offer

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 103rd birthday in November?

Why not locate and display your chapter’s charter?

EPSILON CHAPTER, THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER 1924

Initiation ceremony

If you have not yet held a fall 2023 initiation of new members,
why not plan an initiation ceremony in November to celebrate Sigma Delta Pi’s 104th B-day and National Charter Month?

Remember that guidelines for remote (ZOOM) ceremonies are available at:
https://sigmadeltapi.org/sigma-delta-pi-and-shle-policy-for-remote-events/.

Virtual Event

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, November 14 at 5:00pm (EDT)  for
Sigma Delta Pi’s next virtual event
with the Embassy of Spain to discuss the members-only benefit of priority consideration for the North American Language & Culture Assistants Program.


Free registration in advance of this event at  
https://cofc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJModuqhqjspHN3u0ccMZeztdhDf5GlxLTEw.

10th Annual Birthday Cake Picture Competition
to celebrate Sigma Delta Pi’s 104th birthday.

2023 Winner: Pi Rho, Tau of OH, Ohio University

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 104th 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/

Sigma Delta Pi’s International Events at the AATSP’s 105th Annual Conference, June 26-29, 2023 in Salamanca, Spain: Plan NOW for the 2024 Conference!

Posted on by Sigma Delta Pi / La Sociedad Honoraria de la Lengua Española in Best Practices Session, Embassy of Spain’s Education Office, Poetry Recital, Pulsera Project, Vista Higher Learning

Did you miss Sigma Delta Pi’s various international events last month  
at the 105th Annual Conference of the AATSP?  See highlights below,
and please plan NOW to join us in 2024 for our annual members-only recognition reception
and multiple Sigma Delta Pi-sponsored sessions
at the AATSP’s 106th Annual Conference in Portland, OR.

Sigma Delta Pi and AATSP’s inaugural poetry recital. Pictured: Poet Tina Escaja of the University of Vermont.

Sigma Delta Pi’s signing of MOUs from left to right: renewed partnership with the AATSP via Executive Director Sheri Spaine Long and Executive Director Designate María Carreira;
new partnership with the Spanish Embassy via the Education Counselor for the U.S. and Canada, Jesús Fernández González; new partnership with Pulsera Project via Jillian Bonner, U.S. Administrator.

With partner Vista Higher Learning, sponsor of Sigma Delta Pi’s reception.

Sigma Delta Pi’s Student Best Practices Session featuring Gavin Byrd of Florida State University.

Sigma Delta Pi Partners with Education Office of the Embassy of Spain: Priority Consideration for Sigma Delta Pi Members Applying for NALCAP

Posted on by Sigma Delta Pi / La Sociedad Honoraria de la Lengua Española in Embassy of Spain’s Education Office, Partners

Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society,
is pleased to announce its new partnership with the Embassy of Spain’s Education Office
to offer priority consideration to Sigma Delta Pi members who are eligible and apply for NALCAP,
the North American Language and Culture Assistants Program.

Please visit https://www.educacionyfp.gob.es/eeuu/convocatorias-programas/convocatorias-eeuu/nalcap.html for program eligibility and further details. 

Application period: February 9, 2023 @ 12:00am to April 4, 2023 @ 11:50pm local Madrid, Spain time.

For priority consideration, active Sigma Delta Pi members must include with their NALCAP applications a signed letter from their faculty chapter adviser that verifies the applicant is a Sigma Delta Pi member and that the applicant’s chapter is active and in good standing.