Questions and Answers
What is the official flower of Alpha Kappa Alpha?✅✅Pink Tea Rose
What are the Membership Classifications?✅✅Undergraduate, graduate, general, associate, life,
and honorary
How often does the Boule meet?✅✅Biennially
What is AKA's purpose?✅✅*Cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical standards
*Promote unity and friendship among college women
*Study and alleviate problems concerning girls and women
*Maintain progressive interest in college life
*Service to all mankind
When and where was AKA founded?✅✅January 15, 1908. Howard University. Washington,
D.C.
Administrative Division of the Boule✅✅The Corporate Office
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.
How can a general member or chapter begin the constitution amendment process?✅✅Forward
the change to the Regional Conference
Where is AKA's corporate office? List the address and telephone number.✅✅5656 South Stony
Island Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
(773)-684-1282
How far in advance is the Supreme Basileus of AKA elected? Does she hold this title at the time
of her election?✅✅Four years. No. She serves as First Supreme Anti-Basileus for four years
following her election, and then is installed as Supreme Basileus.
Is the directorate composed of only graduate sorors?✅✅No. Three are undergraduates--Second
Supreme Anti-Basileus and two Undergraduate Members-at-Large
Initiation Ceremony✅✅A ceremony when candidates takes their final vows to the sorority and
declares their allegiance
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated✅✅Cornell University (1906)