The mission of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International is to promote professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education.
The Purposes of the Society are: 1. To unite women educators of the world in a genuine spiritual fellowship; 2. To honor women who have given or who evidence a potential for distinctive service in any field of education; 3. To advance the professional interest and position of women in education; 4. To sponsor and support desirable educational legislation and initiate legislation in the interests of women educators; 5. To endow scholarships to aid outstanding women educators in pursuing graduate study and to grant fellowships to women educators from other countries; 6. To stimulate the personal and professional growth of members and to encourage their participation in appropriate programs of action; 7. To inform the membership of current economic, social, political, and educational issues to the end that they may become intelligent, functioning members of a world society.