CAA Academic Alliance Core Initiatives
With its genesis through the athletic conference, the CAA Academic Alliance serves a diverse array of faculty, staff, and students across its 13 institutions. It is governed by the Provosts Council, comprised of the Senior Academic Officer of each member institution. Over the past 24 years, the Alliance has maintained a record of successful programmatic accomplishments, including faculty research grant programming, communities of practice, high impact practice collaborations, and an array of other programmatic initiatives identified as priorities by the Provosts Council.
Allied AI Collaboratory initiative
Allied AI Collaboratory Initiative Information
Allied AI Pollinator Faculty Learning Community (FLC)
Allied AI Advisory Council
Allied AI Scholar Awards
S2earch26
S2EARCH Information
Innovate/Collaborate (IN/CO) Grant Program
Over the past eight years, the CAA Academic Alliance has encouraged inter-institutional collaboration and research innovation through its signature Innovate/Collaborate (IN/CO) Grant Program. By providing seed and pilot project funding of more than $537,000 since its inception, to twelve different institutions, most project awards have included three or more collaborating CAA institutions.
IN/CO Round 4 Grant Project: “The Power of Peers” curriculum toolkit:
P2P Toolkit [Digital] revised final MAR2026
VIRTUAL RESEARCH MENTORING MODEL (VRMM)
Virtual research mentoring is an important aspect of high impact mentoring and provides opportunities to underrepresented students who are involved in mentored experiences. Furthermore, the recent pandemic environment has resulted in creating better technological resources for faculty and students, and has demonstrated the extensive capabilities of virtual engagement and learning.
CAA RESEARCH SCHOLARS
As a pilot program stemming from a CAA Academic Alliance IN/CO Round 3 grant project award, UNCW, Elon and NC A & T are currently participating as the first cohort of CAA Research Scholars. The inaugural group of CAA Research Scholars will offer their initial findings at a regional research symposium event in October, 2023.
AI Technologies Champion Network
Launched by the CAA Academic Alliance, the AI Technologies Champion Network unites innovators from across thirteen institutions to drive ethical AI adoption, interdisciplinary collaboration, and transformative impact—culminating in Alliance-wide projects and shared outcomes.
