Columbia Scholastic Press Association

Founded in 1927, the CSPAA is a professional organization of teachers/advisers devoted to the development of the student press in accordance with educational practices.

Its purposes include: to function as an autonomous unit of the CSPA; to foster the interests and promote the professional status of advisers to student publications; to encourage sympathetic teamwork between faculty advisers (as the official representatives of their publications) and the school administrators and the community; to inaugurate and publish studies of problems relative to students' publications as well as pamphlets, bulletins and monographs for advisers.

Meetings are held annually at the March CSPA Convention and at the November CSPA Conference.

Headquarters: CSPA, Columbia University, Mail Code 5711, New York, NY 10027-6902.

Click here to view the CSPAA's 21st Century Committee Report.

President

Mary Kay Downes
Chantilly High School
4201 Stringfellow Road
Chantilly, VA 20151 

1st Vice-President & Chair of Committee on Membership

Ray Westbrook
St. Mark's School of Texas
10600 Preston Road
Dallas, TX 75219

Past President and Chair of Committee on Honors

Kathleen Zwiebel
Pottsville Area High School
16th & Elk Avenue
Pottsville, PA 17901 

Chair of Committee on Judging Standards and Practices

C. Bruce Watterson
Chief Communications Officer
The Darlington School
1014 Cave Spring Rd
Rome, GA 30161