In This Issue

Fall/Winter 2005
Volume 1 • Issue 2

Professors Receive
Allan Meyers Award

Director’s Corner

UM Students Receive
National Award

Center Updates Acronym

Prevention Center
of Excellence

$2.9M Reading Program Grant

Director Named
AUCD President

New Leadership for CAC

Search Tool Facilitates
Access to MEC Training

Grant to Increase Access
to Volunteer Opportunities

Intervention Methods
Subject of Conference

Screening Instrument
Under Development

Co-Instructional Model
Developed by CCIDS

Center Staff Star in
New Video

Guest Column:
CAC Member Tours
South Africa

Brain Research Informs
Best Practice

Partnership for EC
Health Formed

Presentations & Publications

CenterPoint Home

Center Updates Acronym; Web Site

To better represent the full scope of its work, The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies experienced a name change in 2004. Though the name changed, the acronym ‘CCI’ stuck—until now.

“After our official name change, questions began to arise about using the CCI acronym,” said Alan Parks, coordinator of Dissemination and Technology. “After much consideration, it was decided that ‘CCIDS,’ the Center’s new official acronym, more accurately reflects our name.”

The expanded acronym is being systematically phased in to all areas of the Center’s dissemination activities, and will soon become an integral part of the Center’s new web site address.

The Center has always prided itself on its compliance with Section 508 standards for web accessibility but now, in addition to getting a new URL, the Center’s web site will transform to mirror The University of Maine’s own recent re-design.

“Although our web site has always displayed The University of Maine crest, our overall design hasn’t reinforced our connection with the University,” said Parks. “By adopting the new template, we’ll do a better job of visually emphasizing our relationship with The University of Maine.”

In keeping with new University web protocols, the Center’s web address will soon change to www.ccids.umaine.edu, emphasizing the new acronym. While this change necessitates updating bookmarks for frequent visitors to the site, visitors to old pages will encounter an automatic re-direct.

“The re-direct will bring visitors to the Center’s new home page,” Parks said. “From there, visitors can use our improved navigation and expanded site map to locate the specific information they are looking for.” The site will also continue to offer a search function.

Launch of the re-designed website is scheduled for early 2006. The Center’s current website will remain active until the launch occurs.

— Kimberly Sawtelle