Founded October 5th 1904, Alpha Kappa Psi is the oldest and largest co-ed professional business fraternity in the United States. Alpha Kappa Psi attracts achievement-minded business students and provides these students with personal development opportunities as well as enhances their professionalism, thus enabling them to become better business leaders for tomorrow. Through a variety of profession
al, community service, fundraising, and social events, Alpha Kappa Psi interacts with other organizations that we can offer assistance to, or that can help us continuously improve. Finally, Alpha Kappa Psi offers a great opportunity to meet new and exciting people. Through our four objects, as adopted at our founding, we seek:
To further the individual welfare of its members
To foster scientific research in the fields of commerce, accounts, and finance
To educate the public to appreciate and demand higher ideals therein and
To promote and advance in institutions of college rank, courses leading to degrees in business administration. Among the benefits of being a member, each member has the opportunity to participate in a number of chapter activities and to be a part of an organization with a strong sense of pride, honor, history and tradition. Each member is encouraged to take an active role in the fraternity. There are tremendous opportunities for growth and leadership on the executive board, the various committees, and through personal involvement. The PI Chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi was founded on November 27, 1917 on the campus of Georgia State University. Chapters of Alpha Kappa Psi are divided into 13 geographical regions. Today, Alpha Kappa Psi is among the twenty largest national college fraternities in the country. With over 200,000 men and women in over 260 college chapters and 90 alumni chapters, AKPsi is a complete, integrated, capably administered national business fraternity standing for the highest levels of conduct and achievement in university and professional life. Of these 200,000 brothers, 5,500 of them are now successful business executives. Prominent Alumni include: Malcolm Forbes, Jr., Sam Walton, Lee Iacocca, J.E. Davis (founder of Winn-Dixie), J.C. Penney, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and many other highly successful businesses and community leaders throughout the nation. WHAT SETS US APART FROM THE OTHERS? WE ARE OPEN TO ALL MAJORS ON CAMPUS,WE DO NOT LIMIT OUR STUDENT MEMBERS TO BEING STRICTLY BUSINESS MAJORS, Alpha Kappa Psi is recognized as a business-minded fraternity, and hope to get our student members ready for life after graduation and their career fields. Having a strong business brotherhood with individuals serves as a great networking tool for all career endeavors and broadening your individual mindsets.
