This practical publication explains the benefits of forming an inclusive postsecondary education state alliance and provides lessons learned and tips for starting or expanding state alliances. Included are ten tips to get started, different possible models to consider, lessons learned, and related resources.
This issue of Impact, by the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota, highlights critical areas of need for inclusive higher education. Accreditation holds promise for ensuring the quality experience that students and their families seek. Opening inclusive programs to a wider cross section of students is also important, as is making sure programs are truly inclusive, offering coursework that leads to competitive employment.
Opportunities for collaboration, peer-to-peer learning, and coalition building proliferated as the number of inclusive higher education programs more than doubled in the last decade. Alliances among states and several regions of the country are providing excellent mechanisms for moving the field forward in new and unified ways, as well as supporting sustainability in the field. This article, featured in Impact, provides examples of state alliances and discusses current work related to the development of regional alliances.
This Power Point presentation features information for statewide inclusive postsecondary consortium to work successfully with state partners. There are suggestions for choosing potential partners, ways to engage those partners, and tips to maintain those relationships. Additionally, features of successful partnership are identified, as well as legislative actions and goals that partners can set.
This PowerPoint slide presentation was developed by Susanna Miller-Raines of GAIPSEC (GA Inclusive Postsecondary Education Consortium) to illustrate steps that can be taken to develop a statewide inclusive postsecondary education alliance. Recommendations for planning are provided, as well as developing an action plan, identifying potential partners, and plans for building capacity.
Staff from the Think College National Coordinating Center presented on some current events related to inclusive higher education and activity from the NCC.
This PowerPoint template was created to be used by postsecondary education teams to educate each other, community partners, advocacy groups, and legislators about the benefits of postsecondary education for students with intellectual disability. The presentaiton includes tips on how to advocate and educate others, and allows the user to insert individual stories or information about an existing or planned program.
