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CSP Advisers 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.

Photo of Ray Westbrook

President

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

1st Vice-President & Chair of Committee on Membership

Melissa Wantz
Foothill Technology High School
100 Day Road
Ventura, CA 93003

Mike Simons

2nd Vice-President & Chair of Committee on Convention

Mike Simons
West High School
35 Victory Highway
Painted Post, NY 14870

Mary Kay Downes photo

Past President and Chair of Committee on Honors

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

Chair of Committee on Judging Practices

C. Bruce Watterson
23 Cumberland Drive SE
Rome, GA 30161-8410

Kathleen Zwiebel

Chair of Committee on Judging Standards

Kathleen Zwiebel
12 South 22nd Street
Pottsville, PA 17901-3104

Chair of Committee on New Technology

Mark Murray
AISD
1203 West Pioneer Parkway
Arlington, TX 76013

CSPAA Columns for You

View reprints of the CSPAA Notes that appeared in the Quill and Scroll magazine. Click here to read them.