“Proposed federal funding changes threaten the growth of inclusive postsecondary programs”
“One evening this May, about a dozen young adults and their families gathered with faculty of TerpsEXCEED, an inclusive two-year post-secondary education program at the University of Maryland for students with intellectual disabilities. They celebrated the students who had just completed the program—which meant having to navigate situations like living in dorm rooms, finding lecture halls, engaging in career center resources, just as any typical college student would—and welcomed five additional young people who had been accepted into the program for this coming fall. But amid the overall celebratory mood of the event, undertones of uncertainty hung in the air over how potential pending federal budget cuts might affect access to higher education programs for students with intellectual disabilities. “