Author: Sigma Chi Administrator

Announcing the 2015 Significant Sigs

Last month, the International Fraternity unveiled the 46 winners of the 2015 Significant Sig Award, Sigma Chi’s highest honor for professional achievement. Bobby Ogdin, TENNESSEE-KNOXVILLE 1966, a career sessions player in Nashville, Tenn., who has worked with such renowned artists as Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson and Kenny Chesney, says that the best part of receiving the Significant […]

Grand Chapter Registration Deadline Approaching

Delegates to the 2015 Grand Chapter meeting in San Diego must register to attend no later than May 1, 2015. Participants may do so at the Grand Chapter website. Simply click the link in the preceding sentence, hover over the word “Register,” and select “Delegate Registration,” and follow the instructions that follow.    To encourage delegates […]

Robert E. Joseph RMF Award Applications Due May 1

Applications for the Risk Management Foundation (RMF)’s Robert E. Joseph RMF Award are due May 1, 2015. The award is named in honor of former RMF chairman and 56th Grand Consul Robert Joseph, WILLAMETTE 1957.   This year, the RMF will award $1,000 grants to the chapters it deems best exemplify sound risk management practices in […]

Foundation Hosting Breakfast at Grand Chapter

To commemorate the Sigma Chi Foundation’s 75th anniversary in 2014, the organization is hosting a celebration breakfast banquet from 8 to 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 27 during the Fraternity’s 80th Grand Chapter meeting at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina in San Diego. Grand Chapter attendees can participate at no additional cost by signing up […]

NIC Recognizes Sigma Chi’s Unique Educational Program

The National Interfraternity Conference (NIC) has named Sigma Chi International Fraternity a Laurel Wreath award winner for its Crossroads drug and alcohol abuse prevention program. The award recognizes Sigma Chi for the unique program, which was designed with the input of a psychologist who focuses on substance abuse, a juvenile counselor who has worked with […]

Ed Spencer, ROCHESTER 1967, Honored for his Fraternity Service

Order of Constantine Sig and Significant Sig Ed Spencer, ROCHESTER 1967, is one of seven alumni from the 74 men’s fraternities that the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) represents who will be honored this year with the Alumni Award of Distinction. Spencer and the other honorees will receive the awards at the NIC’s annual meeting of […]

Sigma Chi Statement on Chapter at University of Houston

The Sigma Chi International Fraternity received information on Jan. 20, 2015, which alleged that inappropriate pledging activities had taken place in a culture at the University of Houston’s Epsilon Xi chapter that was inconsistent with Sigma Chi’s values. The next day, the International Fraternity suspended the chapter for an indefinite period of time, notified the […]

Fraternity Responds to Incident at Oklahoma University

The following is a statement from Sigma Chi International Fraternity’s 68th Grand Consul (international president), Mike Greenberg, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN 1982: The recent events at Oklahoma University that led to the closure of its Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) chapter have given us all pause for concern in the Greek-letter world and remind us of the scrutiny […]

Sigma Chi Reveals Winners of the 2015 Significant Sig Award

The Fraternity has selected 46 recipients for its Significant Sig Award, which recognizes members who have achieved high levels of professional success. Members of the 2015 class may chose to receive their honor at the June 27, 2015, Significant Sig Awards Banquet at the 80th Grand Chapter in San Diego, or at a local ceremony. […]

Nominees Needed for Chapter Publication Awards

Each year, the Fraternity presents the undergraduate chapter that produces the most outstanding newsletter with the Charles G. Ross Active Chapter Publications Program Award, and recognizes its most outstanding alumni chapter publication with the James E. Montgomery Alumni Chapter Publications Award. The winner of each award is chosen among the newsletters that are mailed to […]

International Balfour Award Applications Requested

Sigma Chi International Fraternity Headquarters is soliciting applications for the 2015 International Balfour Award, which is presented to the Fraternity’s most outstanding graduating senior at each summer’s Balfour Leadership Training Workshop. Applications are due April 15. Each spring, every Sigma Chi chapter selects its most outstanding graduating senior for the Chapter Balfour Award; from these, […]

International Fraternity Adds Two Chapters

The Fraternity added 48 members to its rolls with the Feb. 14 installation of the chapter at DePaul University in Chicago, and expects to initiate 38 others into Sigma Chi when it installs the University of North Carolina-Charlotte chapter on March 28. “For me and a lot of others in the chapter, the Initiation ceremony […]

Sigma Chi Launches New Membership Network Website

In 2007, the Fraternity launched its membership network at sigmachi.com. The website offered members the ability to create accounts through which they could update their contact information; view a directory of the Fraternity’s members; create a personalized email address; and access member-only resources such as the chapter system and new member education system. On Feb. […]

Risk Management Foundation Announces Internship

The Risk Management Foundation (RMF) will select one summer intern for an undergraduate brother studying the fields of risk management, life safety, and insurance. Starting in June and continuing through early August, the RMF intern will learn first-hand about the organization’s risk management education and insurance programs, while focusing on special projects such as industry […]