The Bangor Daily News shared that the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS) received a $499,970 grant from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services Office of Aging and Disability Services to conduct a model demonstration project of intensive evidence-based behavioral intervention to help adults with disabilities who are […]
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The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Leah Hakkola, associate professor of higher education, for an article about states where lawmakers want to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at colleges and universities, and states where legislators want to require it. Hakkola said that in the current polarized political climate in the U.S., legislation that […]
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The American Council on Education featured a story on how the University of Maine partners with the Maine Department of Labor’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) to provide a five-week learning experience called Step Up, to help prepare high school students and recent graduates on the autism spectrum to successfully transition to college.
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Kristen Grant, senior Extension program manager for coastal community resilience, and diversity, equity and inclusion at the Maine Sea Grant and University of Maine Cooperative Extension at the Wells Reserve, was a VIP caller on Maine Public’s show Maine Calling for the final program in a series about resilience.
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The Bangor Daily News shared that the University of Maine Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Program has received a national award for its multifaceted effort to recruit and retain more in-state students from diverse backgrounds. The American Psychological Association of Graduate Students named UMaine the 2022 recipient of its Student Diversity Initiative Award, which includes $2,500 […]
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Nicholas Giudice, a professor of spatial computing at the University of Maine, and UMaine Ph.D. candidate Paul Fink wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News about how disability rights advocates improved voting for all Mainers this election season. “The measures taken to enable accessibility are worth the effort, as they have net effects […]
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In an article about how colleges can better serve students with autism, Higher Ed Dive featured a Q&A with Sarah Howorth, professor of special education at the University of Maine who piloted the Step Up to College program for students with autism in 2019. Howorth shared some of the unique challenges students with autism face, […]
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The Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine and WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) reported that the Bangor School Department launched a new partnership with the University of Maine that aims to make Bangor schools more inclusive and welcoming for students and educators from all backgrounds. Through the partnership, members of the UMaine College of Education […]
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Ezekiel “Zeke” Kimball has been named associate dean for undergraduate and teacher education at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. He will work to grow the college’s existing undergraduate programs and lead development of new programs and initiatives; oversee undergraduate student services in the college; facilitate ongoing teacher education assessment and […]
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Insights, the online publication of the business school accreditor AACSB, published the story “Tackling Diversity Along Many Dimensions” by Melanie Brooks, marketing and communications manager for the Maine Business School, and C. Matt Graham, associate professor of business information systems. The piece describes efforts made by the Maine Business School in recent years to improve […]
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