Linda A. Catelli holds Emeritus status at the City University of New York/Queens College and has a BA from Hunter College, and a MA and EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University. She was nationally recognized and honored as one of 56 professors from around the nation as a “pioneer” in school-college collaboration by the then American Association for Higher Education, received the Faculty Achievement Award from CUNY for creative achievement in school-university partnerships, and received, while at Dowling College, the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) PDS Research SIG’s Claudia A. Balach Award for collaborative research with her school colleagues. She has published numerous articles, research papers, chapters and books in education, teacher education and s/u partnerships, and has made over 95 research-paper presentations at national and international conferences, including 20 consecutive years of research presentations at the Annual Meetings of the AERA. She has founded and directed s/u partnerships at the Agnes Russell Lab School at TC, Columbia University, at CUNY/Queens College, and at Dowling College.