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Think College, at the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, with funding from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, announced that 8 University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) were selected for mini-grants to participate in a comprehensive national training initiative to measurably increase the participation of individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities in postsecondary education.
The UCEDD's will work in partnership with their state Developmental Disabilities' Council and other key stakeholders to create an action plan to increase opportunities for inclusive postsecondary education for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Twenty-six applications were submitted for project funding. "We were so pleased with the quality of the proposals submitted, and wish that enough resources had been available to fund many more of the proposals," said Cate Weir, Project Coordinator and Debra Hart, Principal Investigator.
Awardees of the 2009 Think College Mini-grant Competition are:
Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, University of South Florida
PI: Tammy Jorgensen-Smith, PhD
Institute for Disability Studies, University of Southern Mississippi
PI: Jane Siders, EdD
Center for Development and Disability, University of New Mexico
PI: Cate McClain, MD
Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities, University of Nevada
PI: Mary Bryant
Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities, University of Rochester Medical Center
PI: Martha Mock, PhD
North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, Minot State University
PI: Brent Askvig, PhD
Partnership for People with Disabilities, Virginia Commonwealth University
PI: Dana Yarbrough
Center for Disability & Community Inclusion, University of Vermont
PI: Susan Ryan, PhD
For more formation about the minigrants, visit
http://www.aucd.org/template/news.cfm?news_id=4700&id=17.
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