Our goals are:

1. To enhance Chicana/Latina heritage within the sorority.
2. To be involved within campus and our communities.
3. To promote higher education in future generations.
4. To address academics, sisterhood, and personal and individual needs.
5. To create a sisterhood in which we can communicate and express ourselves with trust and security.
6. To form a sisterhood where we can receive support and a commitment that will last a lifetime.
7. To follow a code of conduct representative to us as a sorority and as Chicana/Latina women.

The letters we wear represent our sisterhood, our commitment to each other, and to our goals. For ourselves we are a sisterhood of academic and personal support, trust, and understanding. For our campus we sponsor informative and social activities. We support our fellow Raza organizations and network with other campus resources and groups. For our community our priority is to promote higher education through mentoring, tutoring, scholarships and to overall support Chicana/Latina youth. However, we address other community issues as well. We are also involved in political and social issues that directly affect our Latino community.

Sigma Pi Alpha is a Chicana/Latina sorority. It was founded in the Spring of 1996 at the University of California at Berkeley by nine women who saw the need to create a close network of Latinas who wanted to make a difference in their communities, starting with addressing the needs of Chicana/Latina women. In 2010 Sigma Pi Alpha sorority expanded to SJSU to fulfill that same need for women on this campus.