Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference

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• 1961 – The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference was founded. Charter members included Bloomfield College, Adelphi Suffolk College, The [King's College (New York City)|The King's College], the [LIU Post|C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University], Southampton College of Long Island University, Marist College, Monmouth College of New Jersey and Nyack College, beginning the 1961–62 academic year.
• 1965 – St. [Thomas Aquinas College] joined the CACC in the 1965–66 academic year.
• 1981 – Marist left the CACC to join the Division I ranks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the ECAC Metro Conference after the 1980–81 academic year.
• 1982 – Dominican College of New York joined the CACC in the 1982–83 academic year.
• 1983 – Georgian Court College joined the CACC in the 1983–84 academic year.
• 1985 – Monmouth left the CACC to fully align with the NCAA Division I ranks and join the ECAC Metro after the 1984–85 academic year.
• 1987 – Caldwell College and Post College joined the CACC in the 1987–88 academic year.
• 1989 – Four institutions left the CACC to join their respective new home primary conferences, all effective after the 1988–89 academic year:
• * Dowling, LIU Post and LIU Southampton join the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference
• * and King's College as an Independent
• 1999:
• * St. Thomas Aquinas left the CACC to join the NCAA Division II ranks as an NCAA D-II Independent after the 1998–99 academic year.
• * Felician College, Goldey–Beacom College, Holy Family College, the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and Wilmington College of Delaware joined the CACC in the 1999–2000 academic year.
• 2000 – The New Jersey Institute of Technology joined the CACC in the 2000–01 academic year.
• 2002 – The CACC was granted provisional membership status within the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II ranks, transitioning from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, beginning the 2002–03 academic year.
• 2004 – The CACC had achieved full membership status within the NCAA Division II ranks in the 2004–05 academic year.
• 2005 – Philadelphia University joined the CACC in the 2005–06 academic year.
• 2006 – NJIT left the CACC to join the NCAA Division I ranks as an NCAA D-I Independent after the 2005–06 academic year.
• 2007 – Chestnut Hill College joined the CACC in the 2007–08 academic year.
• 2009 – Concordia College of New York joined the CACC in the 2009–10 academic year.
• 2017 – The CACC began sponsoring men's lacrosse, with play starting in the 2018 spring season.
• 2021 – Concordia left the CACC as the school announced that it would close at the end of 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 University of Bridgeport joined the CACC in the 2022–23 academic year.
• * The CACC began sponsoring bowling, a women-only sport in the NCAA, with play starting the 2023 spring season, 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 East Coast Conference in that sport.
• 2023 – Alliance left the CACC as the school announced that it would close at the end of the 2022–23 academic year.
• 2024 – Lincoln University of Pennsylvania joined the CACC as an associate member for baseball and women's soccer in the 2024–25 academic year.
• 2025 – Bloomfield left the CACC and the NCAA to join the United States Collegiate Athletic Association as an Independent after the 2024–25 academic year.
• 2026 – Monroe University will join the CACC, beginning the 2026–27 academic year; pending its acceptance into NCAA Division II.

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