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.

History Alpha Kappa Pi was a social fraternity founded on Jan. 1, 1921 at the Newark College of Engineering (now the New Jersey Institute of Technology), 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 (in New York), 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 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 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.

Chapter Charter date and range Institution Location Status Alpha – New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, New Jersey Merged () Beta – Wagner College Staten Island, New York Merged () Gamma – Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey Merged () Delta – Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, New York Merged () Epsilon – 1928 Ellsworth College Iowa Falls, Iowa Inactive Zeta – 1935 Coe College Cedar Rapids, Iowa Withdrew (local) Eta – Presbyterian College Clinton, South Carolina Merged () Theta – 1938 Columbia University New York City, New York Inactive Iota – Mount Union College Alliance, Ohio Merged () Kappa – 1935; 1939–1940 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts Inactive Lambda – Bethany College Bethany, West Virginia Merged () Mu – Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia Merged () Nu – Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Merged () Xi – 1943 North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina Inactive Omicron – Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania Merged () Pi – 1936 University of New Hampshire Durham, New Hampshire Inactive Rho – Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey Merged () Sigma – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign and Urbana, Illinois Merged () Tau – Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts Merged () Upsilon –1938 Centre College Danville, Kentucky Inactive Phi – 1939 St. John's College Annapolis, Maryland Inactive Chi – Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina Merged () Psi – West Virginia Wesleyan College Buckhannon, West Virginia Merged () Alpha Alpha – Hartwick College Oneonta, New York Merged () Alpha Beta – Trine University Angola, Indiana Merged () Alpha Gamma – Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, Pennsylvania Merged () Alpha Delta – University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio Merged () Alpha Epsilon – University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Merged () Alpha Zeta – Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan Merged () Alpha Eta – Milton College Milton, Wisconsin Merged () Alpha Theta – Wofford College Spartanburg, South Carolina Merged () Alpha Iota – American University Washington, D.C. Merged () Alpha Kappa – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York Merged () Alpha Lambda – Ohio Northern University Ada, Ohio Merged () Alpha Mu – 1943 Carthage College Kenosha, Wisconsin Inactive Alpha Nu – University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut Merged ()

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