To promote continued personal and collective growth of our membership, success and unity through education, leadership, cultural awareness, and community service.

                Our fraternity embodies true family support, brotherhood and

sisterhood. We hold a very strong pride in the fact that we are familia that helps better each member personally, academically, and professionally. Our members grow through our many opportunities for community service, academic support, campus involvement, and everlasting friendships. We promote collective growth of our membership by holding each other accountable to our stated values. As a familia we do not let a member fall short on the promise he/she made to the fraternity, and therefore we uplift each other when we see that a brother or sister needs an ecouragement.

The fact that we are a co-ed fraternity makes us very unique. The brothers have a bond that sadly can only be understood by them only just as the sisters share a close attachment with each other. But when we’re all together our familia ties are even stronger. The sisters keep our mission statement alive with the everyday work we put into keeping our fraternity in tact, and the brothers are the glue that hold it together and do not let it fall apart. Because both genders contribute something special to the familia it keeps us united in our time spent together.

             We promote personal growth of our membership by dedicating the necessary resources to promote healthy life-styles and to encourage each other to emphasize our common core values. One of the values that we hold to high standards is that we positively affect intelectual development by maintaing grade point averages and graduation rates. Also, as an incentive to keeping high GPAs we have developed scholarship programs that challenge our chapters to achieve academically, provide scholastic support, involve faculty advisors, and recognize both improvement and excellence in academic performance. Many of our members, especially in our chapter, are recognized through academic achievement, especially since many of our members have been inducted into Order of Omega.

           

I believe that the best example of how my fraternity stays congruent with our misstion statement is through leadership. We highly encourage members to take a positive leadership role within our chapter, Greek community, campus, local community, public, and society. We have many alumni that are still active in the Columbus and OSU community which shows that our leadership involvement does not end once our undergraduate career ends. The only thing that we tend to not stay in congruent with is the last part of our mission statement. Although we have do encourage all members to participate in community service and our philanthropy we are lacking in hands-on involvement. The biggest issue preventing my chapter from engaging more in this area is due to the our busy schedules. It is very hard to find time where 100% of our membership can part take in community service.

We believe that our brothers and sisters must take a more active role in our communities. As the fastest growing segment of the population, Latinos are in need of good leaders. This necessitates a continued progress and success. Alpha Psi Lambda is an organization committed to fostering both leadership and unity. We are innovative in our pursuit of participation in a wide variety of activities both on and off campus. We brake away from the negative stereotypes of Greek-lettered organizations, and become the pathfinders for Latinos in general, and for others to follow.