Think College Announces Minigrant Awards
January 27, 2010
Think College Announces Minigrant Awards for Promoting Inclusive Postsecondary Education Options for People with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities
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 UCEDDs were selected for minigrants to implement projects to increase opportunities for postsecondary education for students 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 Minigrant Competition are:
FL: Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, University of South Florida
PI: Tammy Jorgensen-Smith, PhD
MS: Institute for Disability Studies, University of Southern Mississippi
PI: Jane Siders, EdD
NM: Center for Development and Disability, University of New Mexico
PI: Cate McClain, MD
NV: Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities, University of Nevada
PI: Mary Bryant
NY: Strong Cener for Developmental Disabilities, University of Rochester Medical Center
PI: Martha Mock, PhD
ND: North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities, Minot State University
PI: Brent Askvig, PhD
VA: Partnership for People with Disabilities, Virginia Commonwealth University
PI: Dana Yarbrough
VT: Center for Disability & Community Inclusion, University of Vermont
PI: Susan Ryan, PhD
For more information about Think College, visit www.thinkcollege.net
For more information about the minigrants, click here.