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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
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 a partner of the Capital Area School Development Association (CASDA). 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 Committee, consisting of representatives from business and industry, education, economic development, chambers of commerce, and other local community organizations.
http://www.albany.edu/twoyear
Dutch Quad B-7
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 437-3900
Fax: (518) 437-3998
twoyear@albany.edu
Associate Director: Sandra McGarraugh
Associate Director: 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
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
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/
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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
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