The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (or CACC) is a

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affiliated with the

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(NCAA) at the Division II level. Its fourteen member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of

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, New York, and

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. The CACC was founded in 1961 as an athletic conference affiliated with the

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to its st ...

(NAIA), and later joined the NCAA in 2002 on provisional status. The CACC Conference Office has been located in New Haven, Connecticut since 2004, the same year that it upgraded to full active status. The CACC has three full-time staff members and one part-time.

History

Chronological timeline

* 1961 - The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) was founded. Charter members included

Bloomfield College Bloomfield College is a private college in Bloomfield, New Jersey. It is chartered by the State of New Jersey and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The college is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) through ...

, Adelphi Suffolk College (later Dowling College), The King's College, the

C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University LIU Post (formally, the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, and often referred to as C.W. Post) is a private university in Brookville, New York. It is the largest campus of the private Long Island University system. The campus is nam ...

, Southampton College of Long Island University,

Marist College Marist College is a private university in Poughkeepsie, New York. Founded in 1905, Marist was formed by the Marist Brothers, a Catholic religious institute, to prepare brothers for their vocations as educators. In 2003, it became a secular in ...

, Monmouth College of New Jersey and Nyack College, effective beginning the 1961–62 academic year. * 1965 - St. Thomas Aquinas College joined the CACC, effective in the 1965–66 academic year. * 1981 - Marist left the CACC to join the Division I ranks of the

(NCAA) and the ECAC Metro Conference (now known as the Northeast Conference), effective after the 1980–81 academic year. * 1982 - Dominican College of New York (now Dominican University New York) joined the CACC, effective in the 1982–83 academic year. * 1983 - Georgian Court College (now Georgian Court University) joined the CACC, effective in the 1983–84 academic year. * 1985 - Monmouth (N.J.) left the CACC to fully align with the NCAA Division I ranks and join the ECAC Metro, effective after the 1984–85 academic year. * 1987 - Caldwell College (now Caldwell University) and Post College (now Post University) joined the CACC, effective in the 1987–88 academic year. * 1999 ** St. Thomas Aquinas left the CACC to join the

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ranks as an NCAA D-II Independent (which would later join the

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(NYCAC, now the East Coast Conference), effective beginning the 2000–01 academic year.), effective after the 1998–99 academic year. ** Felician College (now Felician University), Goldey–Beacom College, Holy Family College (now Holy Family University), the

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(USP; later the University of the Sciences before being absorbed by Saint Joseph's University in 2022) and Wilmington College of Delaware (now Wilmington University) joined the CACC, effective in the 1999–2000 academic year. * 2000 – The

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(NJIT) joined the CACC, effective in the 2000–01 academic year. * 2002 – The CACC was granted provisional membership status within the

(NCAA) at the Division II ranks, transitioning from the

(NAIA), effective in the 2002–03 academic year. * 2004 – The CACC had achieved full membership status within the NCAA Division II ranks, effective in the 2004–05 academic year. * 2005 –

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(now Thomas Jefferson University) joined the CACC, effective in the 2005–06 academic year. * 2006 – NJIT left the CACC to join the NCAA Division I ranks as an NCAA D-I Independent, effective after the 2005–06 academic year. * 2007 – Chestnut Hill College joined the CACC, effective in the 2007–08 academic year. * 2009 – Concordia College of New York joined the CACC, effective in the 2009–10 academic year. * 2017 – The CACC began sponsoring men's lacrosse, with play starting in the 2018 season (2017–18 school year). * 2021 – Concordia (NY) left the CACC as the school announced that it would close, effective after the 2020–21 academic year. * 2022 ** USciences left the CACC when it merged into Saint Joseph's University at the end of the 2021–22 academic year. ** The

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joined the CACC at the start of the 2022–23 academic year. ** The CACC added bowling, a women-only sport in the NCAA, effective in 2022–23, with full members Bloomfield, Caldwell, Chestnut Hill, Felician, Holy Family, and Wilmington as the inaugural teams. All but Holy Family, which launched its varsity team in 2022–23, had previously been affiliates of the

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in that sport.

Member schools

Current members

The CACC currently has 13 full members, all of which are private schools: ;Notes:

Former members

The CACC had nine future full members, all but one were private schools: ;Notes:

Membership timeline

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St. Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known ...

(1965–1999) bar:10 color:FullxF from:1982 till:end text: Dominican (N.Y.) (1982–present) bar:11 color:FullxF from:1983 till:end text: Georgian Court (1983–present) bar:12 color:FullxF from:1987 till:end text:

Post Post or POST commonly refers to: *Mail, the postal system, especially in Commonwealth of Nations countries **An Post, the Irish national postal service **Canada Post, Canadian postal service **Deutsche Post, German postal service **Iraqi Post, Ira ...

(1987–present) bar:13 color:FullxF from:1987 till:end text: Caldwell (1987–present) bar:14 color:FullxF from:1999 till:end text: Felician (1999–present) bar:15 color:FullxF from:1999 till:end text: Goldey–Beacom (1999–present) bar:16 color:FullxF from:1999 till:end text:

Holy Family The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the fir ...

(1999–present) bar:17 color:FullxF from:1999 till:2022 text: USciences (1999–2022) bar:18 color:FullxF from:1999 till:end text: Wilmington (Del.) (1999–present) bar:19 color:FullxF from:2000 till:2006 text: NJIT (2000–2006) bar:20 color:FullxF from:2005 till:end text: Jefferson (2005–present) bar:21 color:FullxF from:2007 till:end text: Chestnut Hill (2007–present) bar:22 color:FullxF from:2009 till:2021 text: Concordia (N.Y.) (2009–2021) bar:23 color:FullxF from:2022 till:end text: Bridgeport (2022–future) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1961

History

Chronological timeline

Member schools

Current members

Former members

Membership timeline

Sports

Men's sponsored sports by school

Women's sponsored sports by school

Other sponsored sports by school

References

External links