AKA MIP REVISION EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔How often are Regional Conferences held? - ✔✔Every odd year. Annually
✔✔What is the Leadership Seminar? When is it held? - ✔✔A training session for
officers and members which meet in alternate years when boule does not meet
✔✔Regarding Alpha Kappa Alpha Constitution and Bylaws, when may the Bylaws be
amended? - ✔✔The Bylaws may be amended at a regular meeting of the Boule by two-
thirds of the votes cast, provided that the proposed amendments shall have been
circulated to chapters no later than April 30 preceding the Boule.
✔✔How far in advance is the supreme basileus of alpha kappa alpha sorority elected?
Does she hold this title at the time of her election? - ✔✔Four years in advance; no, she
serves as First Supreme Anti-Basileus for four years following her election and then is
installed as Supreme Basileus.
✔✔How does a Soror become a member of an International Committee? - ✔✔All
committee members, excluding Nominating, are appointed by the Supreme Basileus.
The Nominating Committee is composed of elected regional representatives.
✔✔What is the Ivy Leaf? - ✔✔The official publication of the sorority.
✔✔Which former Supreme Basilei are still living? - ✔✔Faye b Bryant , Norma Solomon
White, Carolyn house Stewart , Dorothy b wilson, Eva l evens
✔✔To whom do you report to as a candidate? What is her role? - ✔✔Membership
Chairman. To serve as liaison between chapter and candidates
✔✔When and where was alpha kappa alpha sorority founded - ✔✔1908. Howard
University. Miner Hall
✔✔Why was it founded? - ✔✔Alpha kappa alpha was founded as an instrument to
make college experiences as meaningful and as valuable as possible in enhancing the
capacity of college trained women for significant self realization
✔✔Who was the moving spirit in the establishment of Alpha Kappa Alpha? - ✔✔Ethel
Hedgeman Lyle, inspired by Ethel Tremaine Robinson and Elizabeth Appa Cook
(teachers)
✔✔How are chapter program activities determined? - ✔✔By the International Program
Committee, as defined by the Supreme Basileus
, ✔✔How many individuals were in the original group? - ✔✔nine. Ethel hedgeman Lyle,
beulah and Lillie Burke, margaret Flagg Holmes, Marjorie hill, Lucy digs slowe, Marie
woolfolk Taylor, Anna e brown, and Lavinia Norman
✔✔Who was elected as the first president - ✔✔Lucy Diggs Slowe
✔✔In February 1908, seven students were admitted into the sorority without initiation.
List these individuals - ✔✔Jonna berry shields, norma Boyd, Ethel Jones mowbury.
Sara meriweather nutter, Alice murray, Carrie Snowden, and Harriet terry
✔✔What does the designation "Ivy Beyond the Wall" signify? - ✔✔Deceased soror
✔✔What programs have been developed to assist graduate members of Alpha Kappa
Alpha? - ✔✔Fellowships, financial aid, job placement
✔✔When was the first international chapter set up? Location? - ✔✔1948? Liberia
✔✔When was the first national office opened - ✔✔October 8, 1949
✔✔In 1965, alpha kappa alpha became the first woman's organization to have
opportunity to assist the government in preparing woman and girls for the
responsibilities of citizenship through an anti poverty program? What is this program? -
✔✔Cleveland job Corps center
✔✔In 1968, alpha kappa alpha began publishing a series of brochures detailing the
accomplishments of black women. What were these booklets called? - ✔✔Heritage
series on black women
✔✔When was the Domestic Travel Tour initiated? What was it? - ✔✔1969. A one-week
tour of cities with sites, which are significant to Black heritage.
✔✔What is the Alpha Kappa Alpha Connection? - ✔✔communications network
✔✔What is the leadership fellows program and whom does in serve - ✔✔A two phase
development program for undergraduates designed to improve their leadership skills via
structured theoretical exposure and pragmatic training
✔✔Where is the sorority's Corporate Office? - ✔✔5656 South Stony Island Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60637
773-684-1282
✔✔By what title do we refer to the chief administrator in the Corporate Office? What is
her role? List the name of the current director. - ✔✔Executive Director. Her role is to
CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔How often are Regional Conferences held? - ✔✔Every odd year. Annually
✔✔What is the Leadership Seminar? When is it held? - ✔✔A training session for
officers and members which meet in alternate years when boule does not meet
✔✔Regarding Alpha Kappa Alpha Constitution and Bylaws, when may the Bylaws be
amended? - ✔✔The Bylaws may be amended at a regular meeting of the Boule by two-
thirds of the votes cast, provided that the proposed amendments shall have been
circulated to chapters no later than April 30 preceding the Boule.
✔✔How far in advance is the supreme basileus of alpha kappa alpha sorority elected?
Does she hold this title at the time of her election? - ✔✔Four years in advance; no, she
serves as First Supreme Anti-Basileus for four years following her election and then is
installed as Supreme Basileus.
✔✔How does a Soror become a member of an International Committee? - ✔✔All
committee members, excluding Nominating, are appointed by the Supreme Basileus.
The Nominating Committee is composed of elected regional representatives.
✔✔What is the Ivy Leaf? - ✔✔The official publication of the sorority.
✔✔Which former Supreme Basilei are still living? - ✔✔Faye b Bryant , Norma Solomon
White, Carolyn house Stewart , Dorothy b wilson, Eva l evens
✔✔To whom do you report to as a candidate? What is her role? - ✔✔Membership
Chairman. To serve as liaison between chapter and candidates
✔✔When and where was alpha kappa alpha sorority founded - ✔✔1908. Howard
University. Miner Hall
✔✔Why was it founded? - ✔✔Alpha kappa alpha was founded as an instrument to
make college experiences as meaningful and as valuable as possible in enhancing the
capacity of college trained women for significant self realization
✔✔Who was the moving spirit in the establishment of Alpha Kappa Alpha? - ✔✔Ethel
Hedgeman Lyle, inspired by Ethel Tremaine Robinson and Elizabeth Appa Cook
(teachers)
✔✔How are chapter program activities determined? - ✔✔By the International Program
Committee, as defined by the Supreme Basileus
, ✔✔How many individuals were in the original group? - ✔✔nine. Ethel hedgeman Lyle,
beulah and Lillie Burke, margaret Flagg Holmes, Marjorie hill, Lucy digs slowe, Marie
woolfolk Taylor, Anna e brown, and Lavinia Norman
✔✔Who was elected as the first president - ✔✔Lucy Diggs Slowe
✔✔In February 1908, seven students were admitted into the sorority without initiation.
List these individuals - ✔✔Jonna berry shields, norma Boyd, Ethel Jones mowbury.
Sara meriweather nutter, Alice murray, Carrie Snowden, and Harriet terry
✔✔What does the designation "Ivy Beyond the Wall" signify? - ✔✔Deceased soror
✔✔What programs have been developed to assist graduate members of Alpha Kappa
Alpha? - ✔✔Fellowships, financial aid, job placement
✔✔When was the first international chapter set up? Location? - ✔✔1948? Liberia
✔✔When was the first national office opened - ✔✔October 8, 1949
✔✔In 1965, alpha kappa alpha became the first woman's organization to have
opportunity to assist the government in preparing woman and girls for the
responsibilities of citizenship through an anti poverty program? What is this program? -
✔✔Cleveland job Corps center
✔✔In 1968, alpha kappa alpha began publishing a series of brochures detailing the
accomplishments of black women. What were these booklets called? - ✔✔Heritage
series on black women
✔✔When was the Domestic Travel Tour initiated? What was it? - ✔✔1969. A one-week
tour of cities with sites, which are significant to Black heritage.
✔✔What is the Alpha Kappa Alpha Connection? - ✔✔communications network
✔✔What is the leadership fellows program and whom does in serve - ✔✔A two phase
development program for undergraduates designed to improve their leadership skills via
structured theoretical exposure and pragmatic training
✔✔Where is the sorority's Corporate Office? - ✔✔5656 South Stony Island Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60637
773-684-1282
✔✔By what title do we refer to the chief administrator in the Corporate Office? What is
her role? List the name of the current director. - ✔✔Executive Director. Her role is to
