Music Honorary and Professional Societies

Musical and scholastic achievement at the University of Mississippi is recognized and fostered by student chapters and affiliates of national honorary and professional organizations. The following societies are active on the Ole Miss campus:

The Society of Pi Kappa Lambda, established in 1916 at Northwestern University, is dedicated to the furtherance of music in education and education in music in colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning which offer music degree programs. The local Eta Nu chapter annually recognizes and inducts as new members those juniors, seniors, and graduate students who have demonstrated superior achievement in their respective programs of instruction. Inductees are recognized at a department-wide convocation in May, at which the local chapter also sponsors an address by a distinguished scholar and teacher.

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia of America was founded in 1898 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. The fraternity now boasts nearly two hundred chapters across America, including the Lambda Xi chapter at Ole Miss. Individual chapters work to bring music to their communities and to foster their own members' musical and personal growth.

Sigma Alpha Iota is a music fraternity for women, founded at the University of Michigan School of Music in 1903. It currently has over 82,000 initiated members, and more than 300 college and alumnae chapters throughout the United States. SAI works to uphold the highest ideals of a musical education, and to raise the standards of productive musical work among the women students of colleges, conservatories and universities.

Kappa Kappa Psi is the national honorary band fraternity, dedicated to the furthering of college and university bands through service and brotherhood. The Beta Beta Chapter at Ole Miss was the fiftieth chapter, founded in 1948 and reactivated in 1974.

Tau Beta Sigma is the national honorary band sorority whose membership is open to college students who have participated in a college band program. Founded in 1946, Tau Beta Sigma is a student service and leadership recognition society whose purpose is to assist music directors in developing leadership and enthusiasm within the band. It provides the band with organized service activities, while giving its members experience in organization, leadership and social contacts. The local chapter at the University of Mississippi is Beta Tau

The Music Educators National Conference is a voluntary, nonprofit organization representing all phases of music education in schools, colleges, universities, and teacher-education institutions. Active MENC membership is open to all persons engaged in music teaching or other music educational work. A Collegiate MENC Chapter at Ole Miss has recently been re-activated.

The American Choral Directors Association is a non-profit professional organization of choral directors with an active membership composed of directors from schools, colleges, universities, religious organizations, and professional choral groups. Associate members include students and other interested individuals, institutions, music publishers and manufacturing firms. A student ACDA chapter is active on campus.

The University of Mississippi adheres to the principle of equal educational and employment opportunity without regard to race, sex, color, creed or national origin. This policy extends to all programs and activities supported by the University.