Welcome to the CAA Academic Alliance
The CAA Academic Alliance is an academic consortium that facilitates collaboration and communication across member institutions, engaging faculty, staff, and students in meaningful initiatives that enrich the academic environment, advance student success, and drive innovation and best practices in higher education.
WELL: Well-Being and Engagement for Learning and Leadership
WELL is a collaborative student success/thriving initiative, engaging leadership from both Student Affairs and Academic Affairs across all Alliance campuses. Phase I/pilots have concluded with impressive results, with Phase II efforts underway. Additional outcomes and project updates will be available soon.
Allied AI Collaborative
Launched in October, 2025, the AI Technologies Champion Network unites innovators from institutions across the Alliance to drive ethical AI adoption and integration in higher education, interdisciplinary collaboration, and transformative impact-culmintating in Alliance-wide projects and shared outcomes. Read the press release here.
S2EARCH26
Hosted on the campus of UNCW in June, 2026, the research-focused, inter-institutional collaborative convening welcomed more than 60 faculty/staff/leadership from across the Alliance’s campuses, engaging in cross-institutional research connections.
Fast Facts
CAA Academic Alliance: 25 years of collaboration
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This is the CAA: United in Excellence
The CAA Academic Alliance was founded in 2002 to academically link the member institutions of the CAA sports conference. With its genesis through the athletic conference, the Alliance emphasizes academic excellence and student success, and serves a diverse audience of faculty, staff, and students across its member institutions.
