A Letter From the President

Posted On August 28, 2018 By akpsi In Updates /  

Welcome Back to an Exciting Year!

Since our founding in 1904, Alpha Kappa Psi has been growing and evolving to provide our members with a professional advantage in the workplace and in life. The Fraternity is continuing to develop new and improved programming in support of our Strategic Plan, focused on the “AKPsi Membership Experience,” from pledge to student brother to alumnus. 

Last year, Alpha Kappa Psi accomplished a lot:

  • We officially retired the Annual Chapter Report and launched the Chapter Success Plan, with a 95% completion rate of submissions going into Fall 2018!
  • The pledge education pilot, LEAD, ended, and based on the feedback from our approximately 40 pilot chapters, we’re formally launching the Bridge to Brotherhood this Fall! The Bridge to Brotherhood will be rolling out to Area I, Area IV, and many volunteering chapters in Areas II and III in the next few days. The majority of Areas II and III will transition in Fall 2019.
  • The Management Team created the Fraternity’s first Strategic Advisory Councils, one each for Students, Alumni, and Volunteers.  The Strategic Advisory Councils are already working to provide feedback on potential programming and the implementation of existing products.
  • We chartered two new student chapters, Chi Delta (St. Joseph’s University, Pennsylvania), and Chi Gamma (University of California – Santa Cruz, California.)

While 2017-18 was a year of significant accomplishment, we’re not slowing down this year.  Be on the lookout for updates to the awards program, the Chapter Achievement Pathway, PBLI programming,  the 60th Alpha Kappa Psi Convention in Dallas, TX next summer, and nothing short of a revolution in the technology that supports our programs and members. 

As we all go into the 2018-2019 academic year, remember what makes Alpha Kappa Psi special: the nearly 114-year old brotherhood and the bond we share in our continuous quest to make not just the world of business, but the world of mankind, a better place.  Thank you for your hard work last year in keeping Alpha Kappa Psi as the Premier Developer of Principled Business Leaders, and good luck with the upcoming academic year!

 

Michael G. Dickerson

Fraternity President

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Alpha Kappa Psi’s Fraternity Managers: Leading Program and Process Integration

Posted On August 15, 2018 By akpsi In Volunteers /  

Since the 2017 Convention in Las Vegas, there have been several changes to the Fraternity Management Team (MT), but perhaps the most unique is the creation of the “Fraternity Manager” role.  Fraternity Managers (FM) are responsible for delivery of strategic and tactical programs and functions on behalf of the entire fraternity which provides a value-add to students, alumni, volunteers, and staff.   FMs serve in a similar role as Vice Presidents (VP) in regard to program management but are aligned 100% to strategic delivery of programs whereas VPs split their efforts with managing their respective Areas and Regional Directors.  The FM position is analogous to the Regional Manager position working with the 16 Regional Directors.

Since the creation of the role, there have been four individuals appointed as FMs.  Lea Goodwin was the first FM in AKPsi (FM for Integration & Innovation) and has since been appointed as the Southern Delta Regional Director. 

The current FMs on the Management Team are:

Alexander Hambleton, Lock Haven ’02-Life

Fraternity Manager for Strategic Operational Planning

Alex is responsible for long-term planning, Management Team governance, and coordinating strategic input from students, volunteers, and alumni, including leading the Strategic Advisory Councils.  When asked about his priorities for the role, Alex said: “the main thing I hope to achieve in this role is to help the Fraternity adapt to a changing cultural landscape and to set it up for long-term success in the future.”  Alex’s 11+ years as an AKPsi volunteer, professional experience in software project management, and academic rigor honed in earning an M.A. in Philosophy will all be key in his ability to succeed.  Alex lives in Pennsylvania.  

 

 

 

 

Alyssa Goldstein, Penn State ’06-Life

Fraternity Manager for Operations & Resource Management

Alyssa leads the Management Team’s efforts to implement and deliver integrated programs and resources to the 220+ student chapters and transform the way we recruit, develop, and distribute our volunteer workforce across the organization.  Alyssa, a former Eastern Great Lakes Regional Director and Heritage Center staff member, said her “goal is to build processes and programs that free up time spent on regional and chapter management so that volunteers and students can instead focus on educational programming and developing principled business leaders.”

 

 

 

 

Kushaan Shah, Maryland ’12-Life

Fraternity Manager for Strategic Communications & Engagement

Kushaan’s role as the FM-Strategic Communications & Engagement is to help spread the word not just about what AKPsi is, but what it can offer, to our members and the outside world, while providing opportunities to increase engagement and collaboration among the nearly 14,000 student members and 250,000+ AKPsi alumni.  “…my goal is to leverage AKPsi’s biggest asset, its members, to better understand what motivates our highly-involved members, help create new opportunities for current brothers to engage the rest of the brotherhood, and create more actionable ways members of all engagement levels can contribute to the strength and spirit of this Fraternity.”

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