Click here to complete the Delta Alpha Pi membership application!
What is Delta Alpha Pi?
Delta Alpha Pi (DAPi) is an international academic honor society founded to recognize high-achieving students with disabilities who are attending colleges (including community colleges) and universities as undergraduate or graduate students. This dynamic organization celebrates and supports academic achievement, leadership, and advocacy for post-secondary students with disabilities.
DAPi welcomes students with all types of disabilities.
Coastal Carolina University is home to the Theta Iota Chapter of Delta Alpha Pi.
What is the purpose of DAPi?
Because of the negative stereotyping associated with having a disability, students have been reluctant to identify themselves publicly. Delta Alpha Pi International Honor Society (DAPi) presents the opportunity to change that perception by recognizing students with disabilities for their academic accomplishments. In addition, this honor society facilitates the development of skills in leadership, advocacy, and education related to disability issues.
What are the DAPI membership requirements?
Undergraduate students must:
- Self-identify as a person with a disability or be connected with Accessibility and Disability Services
- Be interested in disability issues
- Maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.1 or higher
- Completed a minimum of 24 credits
Graduate students must:
- Self-identify as a person with a disability or be connected with Accessibility and Disability Services
- Be interested in disability issues
- Maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher
- Completed a minimum of 18 credits
There is no cost associated with becoming a member of Delta Alpha Pi.
How do I join Delta Alpha Pi?
To join Delta Alpha Pi, please complete the following form here. Once you complete the form, please attend a general meeting.
When are DAPi meetings for the Fall 2023 semester?
September 13th from 6:00 - 7:30 PM in Brittain Hall 110
October 18th from 6:00 - 7:30 PM in Brittain Hall 110
November 15th from 6:00 - 7:30 PM in Brittain Hall 110
When will the initiation ceremony be held?
The first Delta Alpha Pi Initiation Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, October 3rd from 6:00 - 8:00 PM in the Alford Ballroom in Atheneum Hall.
Please click here to RSVP to the initiation ceremony. Please complete the form by Monday, September 18th.
What are the benefits of joining DAPi?
- Recognition as an honor student who happens to have a disability.
- Membership in a dynamic organization with over 3200 members nationwide.
- Joining a community of like-minded students who also are high-achievers with a disability and who support rather than criticize.
- Developing or enhancing skills in leadership through activities such as holding an office or being a mentor.
- Developing or enhancing advocacy skills for yourself and for others with disabilities.
- Learning how to plan and implement programming to educate others about disability issues.
- Having the opportunity to “give forward” by helping to lessen the stigma surrounding disability and demonstrating that students with disabilities can be and are successful.
- Wearing the DAPi blue and gold honor cords at commencement/ graduation.
- Having the opportunity to apply for the $2000 DAPi scholarship which is awarded each year to an active undergraduate member of a chapter of DAPi.
- Enhancing your resume through membership in an academic honor society.
Questions?
Please reach out to Accessibility and Disability Services at 843-349-2503, email at disability@coastal.edu, or visit us in Laurel Hall.