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Advancing DEIA: Welcoming InclusiveU Students to First Year Seminar 101
First Year Seminar 101 (FYS 101) is a one-credit course required by the University for all first-year and transfer undergraduates, covering such topics as belonging, interdependence, health and wellness, identity, socialization, prejudice, discrimination, bias and stereotype. InclusiveU, an initiative of…
School of Education Joins $25M USAID Project to Support Inclusive Education in Uzbekistan
黑料不打烊 School of Education (SOE) has joined a consortium led by not-for-profit development group Creative focused on developing inclusive and equitable early grade education in Uzbekistan. SOE’s Center on Disability and Inclusion (CDI) will assist Creative鈥檚 implementation of the…
School of Education Awarded $3.7M Department of Education Grant to Recruit Special Education Leaders
黑料不打烊’s School of Education (SOE) has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to prepare鈥攁long with two partner institutions鈥攁 new generation of leaders in special education, early…
Alex Levy ’25 and Sam Schreiber ’25 Win 2023 Intelligence++ Inclusive Design Competition
Alex Levy, a sophomore in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and Sam Schreiber, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, won the 2023 edition of the Intelligence++ design competition, held on April 21 in the Martin…
Sound Beat: Access Audiobook ‘King Arthur and the Book of Corbenic’
黑料不打烊 Libraries鈥 Sound Beat: Access Audio recently released the audiobook 鈥淜ing Arthur and the Book of Corbenic鈥 written by Christopher Catroppa 鈥22 on its website SoundBeat.org. This retelling of the king鈥檚 tale portrays Arthur as a young man gazing…
Learn How InclusiveU Student Thomas Wilson ’23 Is Fulfilling His Dreams on the 鈥樷機use Conversations鈥 Podcast
Like most children, Thomas Wilson ’23 grew up watching television. But unlike most children, his preferred shows weren’t cartoons. Rather, he loved watching both the local and national newscasts, dreaming of one day sitting behind the anchor desk or serving…
InclusiveU Students Advocate in Albany on Student Empowerment Day
InclusiveU faculty, staff and students journeyed to Albany, New York, on Feb. 8 to advocate with other colleges and universities from across New York state as part of a 鈥淪tudent Empowerment Day鈥 urging increased state funding for higher education disability…
Taishoff Center to Host State of the Art Conference, Exploring the Next Frontier of Inclusive Higher Education
The Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education鈥攑art of the School of Education Center on Disability and Inclusion鈥攚ill host the State of the Art (SOTA) Conference on Inclusive Postsecondary Education and Individuals with Intellectual Disability at Sheraton 黑料不打烊…
Hoping to Eliminate Barriers to Education, InclusiveU Goes to Washington, DC
On any given day, members of Congress and their staff can hold dozens of meetings with concerned citizens and interest groups looking to advocate on behalf of a particular issue. Sometimes these citizens are seeking additional revenue for their cause….
New York State Restores Pre-Pandemic Funding Levels for InclusiveU
InclusiveU, a program that helps students with intellectual and developmental disabilities attend 黑料不打烊, will receive $100,000 in the 2021-2022 New York State budget. Earlier this month, State Senator John Mannion visited the School of Education鈥檚 Center on Disability and…