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Albany Institute for Research in Education (AIRE)
The Albany Institute for Research in Education (AIRE) is a multi-faceted research and development center at the University at Albany ’s School of Education , the oldest public school of education in New York State . AIRE is the umbrella under which scholars within the School, the wider University, and beyond pursue and conduct projects to improve teaching, learning, and human development. AIRE’s centers and projects investigate topics that cross the lifespan and the range of organizations and institutions concerned with human learning and development. Many work in partnership with other schools and universities, community organizations, businesses, and policymakers. They span a variety of classroom and professional settings across the US and internationally and include work in
- Health and Human Services
- Higher Education Policy and Practice
- International Education
- Professional Development
- Social Supports for Learning
- Teaching, Learning, and Policy, Pre-K-12
http://www.albany.edu/aire/
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School of Education
University at Albany
Albany , NY 12222
(518) 442-5026
Fax: (518) 442-5933
Director: Judith A. Langer
Associate Director: Janet I. Angelis
Assistant Director for Research Development: Sara Anderson
Child Research & Study Center (CRSC)
The Child Research and Study Center is one of the organized research centers in the School of Education . The Center was founded over 30 years ago under the joint auspices of the University and the Albany Medical College to provide diagnostic and consultation services to individuals and agencies in the community on behalf of learning disabled children and to conduct research in the study of learning disabilities and other developmental disorders. Currently, the Center is jointly affiliated with the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and the Department of Reading, both in the School of Education. It has three major missions: (1) to conduct research in the study of various aspects of normal and abnormal development, especially as related to school learning; (2) to provide training and field experience in research for graduate students in the School of Education; and (3) to provide diagnostic assessment and consultation services on behalf of impaired learners, in support of student training and research.
Center research has been primarily supported by external funds procured through grants from agencies such as the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the U.S. Department of Education. Researchers affiliated with the Center enjoy a national and international reputation, especially in the study of reading development and reading disability (dyslexia). In recent years, research conducted at the Center has been primarily concerned with early identification and early intervention on behalf of children at risk for early reading difficulties and with the development of techniques and formats for preventing long-term reading difficulties in such children.
http://www.albany.edu/crsc/
1535 Western Avenue
Albany , NY 12203
(518) 442-3770
Fax: (518) 442-3773
crsc@albany.edu
Director: Frank Vellutino
Administrative Assistant: LaToya Jackson
Capital Area School Development Association (CASDA)
This outreach arm of the School of Education provides services to 120 school districts. Organized in 1949, CASDA is the largest program of its kind in the nation, and serves as a cooperative planning and development unit through which schools and agencies can share information and serve their communities; promote cooperation between University and affiliated school districts; respond to requests for information by providing research as needed; act as consultants to provide services to affiliated school districts; organize seminars and one-day conferences for school librarians, reading instructors, supervisors, teachers and other education professionals each year. CASDA sponsors the Excellence in Education Seminar Series, The Greater Capital Region Principal’s Center, The Capital Region Association for Women in Administration and the Capital District Arts in Education Roundtable.
http://www.casdany.org/
East Campus
One University Place - A409
Rensselaer, NY 12144-3456
(518) 525-2680
Fax: (518) 525-2689
casda@uamail.albany.edu
Executive Director: Jeffery McLellan
Assistant Director: Thomas Antis
Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities (CEMHD)
The center is funded by a three-year $1.24 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and endorsed by the New York State Department of Health. CEMHD will focus its efforts on smaller cities, including Amsterdam and Albany. In a state where minorities make up nearly 39 percent of the population and where 169 languages are spoken, one of the center’s highest priorities is ensuring that all New Yorkers have the opportunity to achieve optimum health. CEMHD will fill an important need by developing effective community-based approaches for improving minority health that can be applied here in the Capital District and replicated in communities across New York State. The center is uniquely multidisciplinary, with collaborative efforts of the deans and faculty from the schools of Education, Public Health and Social Welfare and the College of Arts and Sciences. School of Education dean Susan Phillips will be in charge of the outreach and dissemination core, with the task of constructing a strategy to disseminate to minority communities messages that promote the understanding and counteracting of health disparities. As an NIH EXPORT (Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training) center, CEMHD will identify health problems and seek ways to reduce, and eventually eliminate, minority health inequities by building the University’s health disparities research capacity, and by strengthening community partners’ ability to collaborate on research and intervention programs.
http://www.albany.edu/cemhd/
University at Albany, SUNY
Arts and Sciences 209
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York 12222
(518) 442-5976
Fax: (518) 442-4563
cemhd@albany.edu
Center Director: Lawrence Schell
Program Director: Wilma Alvarado-Little
Center for Innovation in Career Development
The Center for Innovation in Career Development, formerly the Two-Year College Development Center, is an affiliate of the School of Education, University at Albany. For more than three decades the Center has pursued research and development activities to support education, staff development and career opportunities for all learners. In recent years career development activities have emphasized opportunities for women and minorities in the fields of science, math, engineering and technology.
The Center’s mission is to support appropriate career development for all learners through the design and delivery of innovative resources and programs. Supported with various external grant and contract funds, staff and consultants conduct a variety of research, development and service activities that meet the Center’s mission and program goals. Center staff and consultants work closely with an Advisory Council, consisting of representatives from business and industry, education, economic development, chambers of commerce, and other local community organizations.
http://www.albany.edu/innovation
Dutch Quad B-7
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 437-3900
Fax: (518) 437-3998
cicd@uamail.albany.edu
Director for Program Development:
Sandra McGarraugh
Director for Finance and Technology Development:
Peisheng Zhao
Administrative Assistant: Darcy Hudson
Center for Urban Youth & Technology (CUYT)
The Center for Urban Youth and Technology (CUYT) is dedicated to implementing technology-based programs designed to work with urban youth. CUYT is concerned with the following questions. How do we begin to bridge the technology gap in this country, specifically in the inner city area? How do we provide services and training to the economically disadvantaged who may not otherwise get this opportunity? How do we expose this population to the new technologies? CUYT focuses on students in the ages of 12-19; those who are beginning to make decisions concerning career options and higher education. Many of these students would not ordinarily have been exposed to current applications of the new technologies. CUYT is concerned about the larger community in urban centers and also focuses on the needs of teachers in urban schools and parents.
http://www.albany.edu/cuyt/
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School of Education
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-5035
Fax (518) 437-3612
Director: Joseph Bowman, jebowman@albany.edu
Educational Evaluation Research Consortium (EERC)
The purpose of the Educational Evaluation Research Consortium (EERC in English, CEIE in Spanish) is to conduct a study of the educational opportunities provided in primary education in the Dominican Republic and to understand the impact of those opportunities on learning Mathematics and Reading Comprehension from 4 th to 7 th grade. This is done to understand educational opportunities and learning throughout the educational system, to evaluate and monitor the impact of educational projects supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Dominican Republic, as well as to evaluate the progress of different innovations that diverse partners in the Dominican educational system are carrying out. The EERC is made up of three universities: two from the Dominican Republic (Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo and Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra de Santiago ) and one from the United States (University at Albany ).
http://ceie.albany.edu/
Dept. of Educational Administration & Policy Studies
School of Education
University at Albany
Albany , NY 12222
(518) 442-5080
Fax: (518) 442-5084
valverde@uamail.albany.edu
Project Director: Gilbert A. Valverde
Evaluation Consortium
The Evaluation Consortium conducts program evaluation services for educational, governmental, and private agencies. For over 20 years, the Consortium has developed a reputation at the local, state, and national levels for providing both high quality evaluation services as well as being actively engaged in the dissemination of evaluation research. The Consortium is staffed by senior evaluators who supervise masters and doctoral students from the School of Education under the direction of Dr. Dianna Newman. Types of evaluations conducted by the Consortium include technology curriculum and instruction, professional development that supports reform in K-12 settings, and cross site evaluation of innovative educational practices at the state level, and evaluation of cutting edge federal programs. In conjunction with Canadian and other New York Universities , the Consortium sponsors the annual Edward F. Kelly Evaluation Conference that provides opportunities for student presentations, as well as attracting nationally recognized keynote speakers in the field of evaluation.
Indian Quad B-7
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-5027
Fax: (518) 442-3266
Director: Dianna Newman, dnewman@uamail.albany.edu
Administrative Assistant: salven@csc.albany.edu
Pathways Into Education Center (PIE)
Pathways Into Education (PIE) Center is the central office on campus serving undergraduates and prospective students interested in pursuing careers in education as well as graduate students enrolled in degree programs that lead to teacher certification. The PIE Center …
http://www.albany.edu/education/pie_center.html
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School of Education
University at Albany
Albany , NY 12222
(518) 442-4828
Fax: (518) 442-4953
PIECenter@uamail.albany.edu
Program for Research On Private Higher Education (PROPHE)
PROPHE is a global network dedicated to building knowledge about one of the most striking tendencies in higher education around the world--the development of large and often vibrant private sectors. PROPHE is interested in all facets of private higher education development and functioning. However, it presently devotes special attention to the growth and patterns they produce, particularly those that are common and powerful internationally. Some patterns involve evolution from prior patterns while many are largely new, and nearly all are barely studied. Priority subjects thus include:
- Demand-absorbing, vocational, and other non-university postsecondary private institutional options that are key to expanding access
- For-profit activity, whether at legally for-profit institutions or at legally nonprofit ones or involving for-profit/nonprofit partnerships
- Internationalization, including branch campuses and foreign ownership
- Attempts at culturally distinctive higher education
- Attempts at academically or socio-economically advantaged higher education
http://www.albany.edu/dept/eaps/prophe/index.html
Dept. of Educational Administration & Policy Studies
School of Education
University at Albany
Albany , NY 12222
(518) 442-5177
Fax: (518) 442-5084
prophe@albany.edu
Director: Daniel C. Levy
Regional Adult Education Network, East (RAEN-E)
The Regional Adult Education Network, EAST is one of seven Networks throughout NYS delivering staff and professional development programs for traditional and non-traditional adult educators in 16 counties in Eastern Upstate NY. The primary mission of the RAEN, East is to improve educational outcomes for adult learners; increase opportunities for adults to enter, retain and improve employment, and improve literacy levels for families in New York State by providing research-based staff development and program improvement opportunities for professionals working with adult learners. The RAEN provides over 400 hours of training in required NYS Education Department curriculum (80%) and programming based on local needs assessment (20%) to approximately 1200 adult educators annually. The RAEN also promotes education, business, and community partnerships for adult educators. RAEN, East funding is provided through the State University of New York Research Foundation, University at Albany, School of Education and the New York State Department of Education, Office of Adult Education and Workforce Development, Workforce Investment Act, Title II funding.
http://apps.nyraen.org/
Dutch Quad B7
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 437-3987
Fax: (518) 437-3986
Executive Director: Tanya Lipinski, tlipinski@uamail.albany.edu
Program Coordinator: Karen Law, klaw@uamail.albany.edu
Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA)
Since 1987, the National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA) has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Educational Sciences (formerly the Office of Educational Research and Improvement) to conduct research dedicated to gaining knowledge to improve students' English and literacy achievement. The Center’s research and development activities, conducted in schools across America , seek to learn what elements of curriculum, instruction, and assessment are essential to developing high literacy and how schools can best help students achieve success. CELA provides that information through print and online resources) to teachers, schools, and communities so that they can choose the approaches that will work with their students. Studies are planned to provide definitive information about what works, for whom, and under what conditions.
http://cela.albany.edu/
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School of Education
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-5026
Fax: (518) 442-5933
aireadmin@uamail.albany.edu
Director: Arthur Applebee
Director: Judith Langer
Associate Director: Janet Angelis
The Comparative and International Education Policy Program (CIEPP)
The Comparative and International Education Policy Program conducts research, participates in major public policy debates, and trains researchers and practitioners at the Ph.D. and Masters levels. CIEPP uses scholarship to inform practice and relies on practice to inform scholarship. Situated in New York State ’s capital, CIEPP draws on one of the nation’s richest pools of public policy experts, both across and outside the university, including in agencies in nearby cities. Encompassing the range of comparative education issues, CIEPP focuses on the study of public policy as well as the interrelationship between it and institutional dimensions. CIEPP explores these matters through a combination of disciplinary perspectives from economics, sociology, political science, organizational studies, and educational studies. Although CIEPP has particular regional strengths (including Latin America and most other developing regions, OECD countries, and transitioning countries of former Soviet Union and Central & Eastern Europe), its geographical scope is global. Topics of interest, such as evaluation or new private-public mixes, are issues in much of the world, very much including the United States , and are explored as such.
Dept. of Educational Administration & Policy Studies
School of Education
University at Albany
Albany , NY 12222
(518) 442-5080
Fax: (518) 442-5084
prophe@albany.edu
Core Faculty:
Daniel C. Levy
Heinz-Dieter Meyer
Gilbert A. Valverde
Alan P. Wagner
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