History of Delta Sigma Pi

  • Beta Pi Chapter
    • The Beta Pi chapter was chartered at Kent State University in 1942, where it began as the elite business organization on Kent State University campus - scoring awards for best fundrasing efforts, community service, and highest in CEI points, Beta Pi still strives to remain one of the best organizations on campus applying what we learn in class to what we do in our organization.
  • The Founding
    • Delta Sigma Pi was founded in 1907 at New York University: School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance by Harold Valentine Jacobs, Alexander Frank Makay, Alfred Moysello and Henry Albert Tienken. Today, coast to coast, more than 250 chapters and nearly 200,000 members support the goals and ideals of the Fraternity.
  • The Purpose
    • Delta Sigma Pi is a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage scholarship, social activity and the association of students for their mutual advancement by research and practice; to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce, and to further a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture and the civic and commercial welfare of the community.
    • Further history information can be found by downloading this document.