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CSPA is affiliated with the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Robert Greenman, former high school newspaper adviser, author and consultant to The New York Times, will receive the Joseph M. Murphy Award for outstanding service to the Association from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) during its 85th annual Convention.

Greenman has taught high school and college English and journalism at James Madison High School, Edward R. Murrow High School and Kingsborough Community College, all in Brooklyn, NY. He also advised school publications for more than 30 years.

Currently, Greenman is an educational consultant for The New York Times’ Newspaper in Education program. He is the author of The Adviser’s Companion, a guide for high school newspaper advisers, published by CSPA. He also edited Words that Make a Difference and (with his wife Carol) More Words that Make a Difference, both published by Levenger Press.

The Association decided to honor Greenman for a working lifetime of volunteer service to the CSPA as a speaker at their conventions, conferences and workshops; as a judge for contests; and as an author of articles and books.

The Association honored Greenman in 1999 with its first annual Charles R. O’Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching. That distinction recognized his personal teaching, often for as many as eight sessions during the three-day conventions from as early as 1973. During these events, his teaching usually exceeded the individual contributions of others at those conventions.

Since 1999, Greenman has not only maintained this level of his own speaking for CSPA, but has also recruited many fine journalists and authors to speak as well. He has done all of this freely and on his own initiative, in his usual modest and unassuming manner. 
 
Edmund J. Sullivan, CSPA's executive director, said: "I cannot think of anyone, now living, who has contributed in more varied ways to the CSPA Convention program than Robert Greenman has."

Greenman will receive the Murphy Award during a special Adviser Awards Luncheon on Friday, March 20, 2009 on the campus of Columbia University in New York City.