Mission

Our mission statement is as follows,

Pi Kappa Alpha will set the standard of integrity, intellect, and achievement for our members, host institutions, and the communities in which we live.

I feel as if our chapter is on the rise.  We look for guys that possess these qualities and that strive to be the best.  I think that it is through fraternal life that leaders are shaped and influenced.  Through my own experience, I have noticed that not everyone has the same beliefs and opinions on things.  That happens in life, duh.  But because of that, I think we become better leaders because we have to talk through problems and create solutions.  If someone does something wrong, they hear about it, and they learn from the what they did.  Our members are held to a high standard of integrity because we want to be viewed as gentlemen.

In regards to intellect, I feel our fraternity is beginning to establish itself as a much stronger intellectual organization.  The definition of intellect is, capacity for thinking and acquiring knowledge, esp. of a high or complex order; mental capacity.  In regards to this definition, we have these things.  A large number of our members are engineers of different sorts.  We strive to make ourselves better and more knowledgeable in regards to our course of study.  Our GPA is not the best or the worst, but we as a chapter are working very hard to bring this "number" up.  I say number like that, because GPA is just a number.  Nowhere in the definition of intellect does it say high GPA, it says capacity for thinking and aquiring knowledge of a high or complex order.  To me, we as a chapter are doing that.  Society is crazy about numbers and figures, and that is why GPA is so important.

Achievement.  What a wonderful word!  We have won the fraternity cup, we have several leaders on campus, and we have moved to a place on campus where everyone can see us and where we're going.  I think that by our achievements we bring the greek community up.  If our fraternity is giving a good image, I think that does some good in speaking for the whole greek community.  A lot of people make first impressions, and don't give much thought to those impressions maybe being wrong.  If people can see our achievements, I feel as if it's much more difficult to make these negative first impressions of greek life. 

I think that we are being as congruent as possible to our mission.  There are always areas to improve on, in any organization, but we are working to make those improvements and set the bar for excellence.

That's all for now folks!
Zach