AKA MIP TEST 2023/2024 – Q&A Marjorie Hill: ✔️Ans - First Ivy beyond the walk (died 1909) & taught at Morgan College Lucy Diggs Slowe: ✔️Ans - first President & drafted organization's constitution Where was AKA founded? ✔️Ans - Howard University in Washington, D.C. (Miner Hall) 1908 Who founded AKA? ✔️Ans - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle When was AKA founded? ✔️Ans - January 15, 1908 Why was AKA founded? ✔️Ans - AKA was founded as an instrument to make college experiences as meaningful & as valuable as possible in enhancing the capacity of college trained women for significant self realization
Who influenced Ethel Hedgeman Lyle? ✔️Ans - 2 of her teachers:
- Tremain Robinson
- Elizabeth Appa Cook
When was AKA incorporated? ✔️Ans - January 29, 1913 Who incorporated AKA? ✔️Ans - Nellie Quander
The first president of AKA was: ✔️Ans - Lucy Diggs Slowe
Leadership Seminar: ✔️Ans - a training session for officers and
members which is held in alternate years when the Boule does not meet Undergraduates may hold which of the following offices? ✔️Ans - Second Supreme Anti-Basileus and Member-at-Large
All of these are standing committees of AKA except: ✔️Ans -
scholarship 1 / 3
The Director of the International Region is: ✔️Ans - International
Regional Director
A transfer of the membership must be issued by: ✔️Ans - AKA
Corporate Office The colors of AKA are salmon pink and apple green and the official flower
is the: ✔️Ans - Pink Tea Rose
Membership in the AKA Sorority may be classified as ✔️Ans - Undergraduate, graduate, general, associate, honorary, and life How often does the Boule meet? ✔️Ans - Biennially (every 2 years) The Domestic Travel Tour was: ✔️Ans - a one-week tour of cities which are significant to Black history The administrative division of the Boule is: ✔️Ans - the AKA Corporate Office What programs have been developed to assist graduate members of AKA?✔️Ans - fellowships, financial aid, & job placement When was the first international chapter set up and where was it?✔️Ans - 1948, Liberia AKA is composed of chapters of equal rank known as the graduate and undergraduate (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True When was the first national office opened? ✔️Ans - October 8, 1949 The governing body of AKA is known as the Boule (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True The Boule is subordinate to all of the AKA Chapters (T/F)? ✔️Ans - False- the boule is the governing body of AKA to which all chapters shall be subordinate 2 / 3
The Directorate does not have the power to carry on the business of the sorority, when the Boule is not in session (T/F)? ✔️Ans - False- the Directorate shall have the power to conduct the business of the sorority when the Boule is not in session Each region holds an annual conference (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True The Regional Conference has the power to make recommendations to the Directorate or to the Boule and to propose amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Sorority (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True A chapter or general member who wishes to amend the Constitution begins the amending process by forwarding the proposed change to the Regional Conference (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True Where is the sorority's Corporate Office? List the address and telephone
number: ✔️Ans - 5656 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
60637 (773-684-1282)
All of the officers on the Directorate are graduate sorors (T/F)? ✔️Ans - False- all officers of the Directorate are graduate sorors with the exception of the Second Supreme Anti-Basileus and two Undergraduate Members At- Large.The graduate advisor serves as a liaison between graduate and the undergraduate chapter (T/F)? ✔️Ans - True
The official publication of AKA Sorority is: ✔️Ans - The Ivy Leaf
Regional Conference: ✔️Ans - is a study session designed to clarify procedures and resolve problems of the chapters within a region through workshops, discussions, demonstrations, and other types of group activity Initiation ✔️Ans - is the ceremony at which a candidate takes the final vows to the sorority & declares an allegiance from which she cannot later withdraw List the founders: ✔️Ans - 1. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
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