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Equity and Excellence in Higher Education—Collaboration for Learning

How can we assure that college students are able to learn in ways that suit them best and with the fewest barriers to learning? When faculty apply the principles of universal design for learning to their classrooms, students have increased access to learning opportunities, learning improves, and the need for accommodation is reduced.

CCIDS is exploring these issues through a new collaboration with the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In this collaboration titled, Universal Access to Higher Education at the University of Maine: A Comprehensive Model, a model will be developed to address universal access on the UMaine campus. The model is based on a foundation of scholarly literature in the areas of universal access theory and practice, attitudes toward universal access, teaching-learning best practices, and organizational change theory.

In addition to UMaine and UMass-Boston, this collaboration involves the University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, and Rhode Island College. The five campuses will meet periodically to share research findings and strategies in order to develop a set of models for implementation throughout higher education.

— Alan Parks


In This Issue Fall 2006 Gathering Celebrates the Dream of Inclusive Communities Director’s Corner Television Campaign Targets Awareness Awards Banquet Goes Hi-Tech Equity and Excellence in Higher Education—Collaboration for Learning Growing Ideas Tipsheets Benefit Young Children New Initiatives Underway Disability Studies Scholars Receive Certificates of Completion Teambuilding III Offers Training for Educational Surrogate Parents Prevention Center of Excellence at CCIDS Zeph Testifies Before House Appropriations Committee CCIDS Introduces Colloquium Series Statewide Database Links At-risk Babies with Services for Early Intervention Researchers Specialize in Epidemiology of Child Development Early Childhood Professionals Advance Skills, Services Upcoming CCIDS Events IDS Enrollment Increases Presentations & Publications CenterPoint Home	Center Home \| UMaine Home \| CenterPoint Home Equity and Excellence in Higher Education—Collaboration for Learning How can we assure that college students are able to learn in ways that suit them best and with the fewest barriers to learning? When faculty apply the principles of universal design for learning to their classrooms, students have increased access to learning opportunities, learning improves, and the need for accommodation is reduced. CCIDS is exploring these issues through a new collaboration with the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In this collaboration titled, Universal Access to Higher Education at the University of Maine: A Comprehensive Model, a model will be developed to address universal access on the UMaine campus. The model is based on a foundation of scholarly literature in the areas of universal access theory and practice, attitudes toward universal access, teaching-learning best practices, and organizational change theory. In addition to UMaine and UMass-Boston, this collaboration involves the University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, and Rhode Island College. The five campuses will meet periodically to share research findings and strategies in order to develop a set of models for implementation throughout higher education. — Alan Parks

CENTERPOINT: The Newsletter of the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, Maine’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service

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Equity and Excellence in Higher Education—Collaboration for Learning