Evan R. Collins

1949 July - 1969 June 30

Evan R. Collins is appointed president. Capital Area School Development Association (CASDA) formed. CASDA is currently governed by school districts and School of Education Dean. CASDA grew out of informal meetings between regional school district leaders and the rapidly expanding NYSCT. The school districts were facing rapid expansion in the post-WW II years. The college was expanding its research and service mission. CASDA was the third organization of its kind in the country, following ones affiliated with Columbia and Harvard. It is governed by a board representing the administrators of the affiliated school districts, and has been supported with office space and telephone service by the college/ university. Among CASDA's programs in the 1980s and 1990s have been the Select Seminars on Excellence in Teaching (begun in 1985) with published pro- ceedings, the Greater Capital District Principal's Center providing training in administrative skills, the Wired Scholars Program in which 10 juniors travel the state with their teachers learning about local history, the "I Have A Dream" program which guarantees college tuition to 94 Albany students, the Scholars Recognition Program, honoring senior scholars and teachers. CASDA was chartered by NYS in 1971.

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Judith L. Genshaft, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, "CASDA: Half-Century of Partnership in Education," University Update, September 30. 1998, p. 4, reproduced form CASDA Newsletter, Spring 1998