4th Annual FSL Award Ceremony
The Annual Fraternity & Sorority Life (FSL) Awards Ceremony marks the close of the fall semester. This prestigious event serves as the institution’s official recognition platform, celebrating the exemplary achievements and demonstrated excellence of our FSL chapters, outstanding individual members, and dedicated stakeholders throughout the academic year. It underscores the community’s commitment to scholarship, leadership, service, and organizational integrity.
Congratulations to our award recipients!
Excellence in Intellectual Development
This award recognizes a chapter that has excelled in maintaining high academic success, enacted policies, resources, and initiatives to support academic success, and developed academic success programs that have supported their members in achieving their goals in academics.
Delta Tau Delta & Alpha Gamma Delta
Excellence in Intellectual Development – Delta Tau Delta & Pi Beta Phi
Excellence in Leadership Development
This award goes to a chapter that has an intentional plan for helping members develop and grow through their membership, can articulate goal setting, and set plans for supporting individual members.
Delta Kappa Epsilon & Pi Beta Phi
Excellence in Leadership Development – Delta Kappa Epsilon & Pi Beta Phi
Excellence in Engagement, Philanthropy, & Community Service
This award goes to the chapter that not only excels in campus engagement, community service and philanthropy, but embraces the practice as a crucial component to their overall member development.
Chi Phi & Kappa Kappa Gamma
Excellence in Engagement, Philanthropy, & Community Service – Chi Phi & Kappa Kappa Gamma
Excellence in Risk Management
This award goes to the chapter that has an established wellness and risk management plan, embraced educational programming to support risk prevention, and developed a system for holding members accountable.
Pi Beta Phi & Delta Tau Delta
Excellence in Risk Management – Pi Beta Phi & Delta Tau Delta
Excellence in Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
This award goes to the chapter that has intentional and meaningful partnership within the FSL, Lafayette, and Easton community, can articulate the impact that their DEI programming has had on their members and the community, and has worked to remove barriers that hinder accessibility to all students.
Delta Gamma & Delta Upsilon
Excellence in Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion – Delta Gamma & Delta Upsilon
Excellence in Recruitment/Intake
This award goes to the chapter that excels in recruitment/intake and retaining new members. These chapters articulate a plan for recruiting new members in a values-congruent matter, hosting a new member education process rich in expectations, history, values, and development, and provide support throughout the new member process.
Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc. & Phi Kappa Psi
Excellence in Recruitment/Intake – Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc. & Phi Kappa Psi
Excellence in New Member Education
This award goes to the chapter that has developed a new member education program that most highly exemplifies the development of new members and integration within the fraternity and sorority life community.
Kappa Kappa Gamma & Delta Kappa Epsilon
Excellence in New Member Education – Kappa Kappa Gamma & Delta Kappa Epsilon
Excellence in Chapter Operations
This award goes to a chapter leadership that has managed, organized, and operated the day-to-day activities, programs, and function of the chapter and upheld the expectations set by Lafayette College and the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life.
Alpha Gamma Delta & Phi Sigma Chi Multicultural Fraternity, Inc.
Excellence in Chapter Operations – Alpha Gamma Delta & Phi Sigma Chi Multicultural Fraternity, Inc.
Excellence in Assessment
This award goes to the chapter that has most critically assessed their successes and areas of improvement and meaningfully developed action plans for the future efforts of their chapter.
Delta Upsilon & Alpha Phi
Excellence in Assessment – Delta Upsilon & Alpha Phi
Program of the Year
This award highlights a program hosted or co-hosted by a chapter or council that inspired dialogue, empowered change and motivation, or made an impact aimed towards strengthening the Lafayette community.
4th Annual Neil Levin 9/11 Stair Climb – Zeta Psi
Program of the Year – 4th Annual Neil Levin 9/11 Stair Climb (Zeta Psi)
Community Partner of the Year
This award recognizes campus departments, local businesses, student organizations, and campus professionals that have utilized their time to support the fraternal community.
Peer Anti-Violence Educators (PAVE)
Community Partner of the Year – Peer Anti-Violence Educators (PAVE)
Chapter Advisor of the Year
This award recognizes the outstanding chapter advisors that provide support in a variety of ways to their chapters. These advisors demonstrate their commitment to the chapters by upholding the values of the organization and holding members accountable to organizational expectations.
Jennifer Hughes (Alpha Gamma Delta) & Mike Rupolo (Delta Kappa Epsilon)
Chapter Advisor of the Year – Jennifer Hughes (Alpha Gamma Delta) & Mike Rupolo (Delta Kappa Epsilon)
Outstanding Scholar Award
This award recognizes members of the fraternity and sorority community who consistently push themselves above and beyond in their intellectual pursuits.
Daniel Colden (Chi Phi) & Megan Dursema (Kappa Kappa Gamma)
Outstanding Scholar Award – Daniel Colden (Chi Phi) & Megan Dursema (Kappa Kappa Gamma)
Community Builder Award
This award is presented to members of the community who exemplify what it means to build and unify the fraternity and sorority community. These candidates excel in outreach, campus relations, inter and intra personal skills, challenging the norm, and has a passion for cohesion and siblinghood. This award recognizes a member of our community that has taken action to cross-collaborate with multiple entities, shows support to all chapters, and has been innovative in their approach.
Luna Garces (Delta Gamma) & Jack Paradis (Delta Kappa Epsilon)
Community Builder Award – Luna Garces (Delta Gamma) & Jack Paradis (Delta Kappa Epsilon)
Emerging Leader Award
This award is presented to members of the community that have an exceptional capacity for leadership within the organization. These individuals do not currently hold an executive officer role in their chapter or governing council. This award recognizes members of the fraternity and sorority that are the leaders of tomorrow. These individuals show promise and are eager to pursue leadership opportunities in their chapter, council, and beyond.
Charles Weinstein (Phi Kappa Psi) & Milan Iezzi (Delta Gamma)
Emerging Leader Award – Charles Weinstein (Phi Kappa Psi) & Milan Iezzi (Delta Gamma)
New Member of the Year
This award is presented to new members of the community (spring or fall 2025) that have gone above and beyond in the first few moments of their membership experience. These students excel in academics, completion of the new member program, campus and community participation, and personal character.
Allie Waxman (Pi Beta Phi) and Diogo Delcarmen (Phi Sigma Chi Multicultural Fraternity, Inc.)
New Member of the Year – Allie Waxman (Pi Beta Phi) & Diogo Delcarmen (Phi Sigma Chi Multicultural Fraternity, Inc.)
President of the Year
This award recognizes exemplary chapter presidents that have made an impact in their chapter and leave a strong legacy. These presidents may have encountered challenges and resistance, worked to make chapter change, or helped an excellent chapter become even better. Award winners are presidents with strong leadership skills capable of leading by example and representing the organization and the fraternity and sorority community as a whole in a positive way through values-based decision-making.
Matthew Mikhov (Delta Kappa Epsilon) & Nandini Raizada (Alpha Phi)
President of the Year – Matthew Mikhov (Delta Kappa Epsilon) & Nandini Raizada (Alpha Phi)
Chapter of the Year
This award recognizes the fraternity and sorority chapters that exceed all expectations of the FSL Accreditation Program. The receiving chapters must have a score about 90%. The members of these chapters put all of their effort into exceeding the expectations and respresenting the fraternal community to the highest level.
Delta Upsilon & Kappa Kappa Gamma
Chapter of the Year – Delta Upsilon & Kappa Kappa Gamma