The North Carolina Postsecondary Education Alliance is a diverse group consisting of emerging leaders with developmental disabilities, representatives of state agencies and organizations, legislators, educators, and families and other advocates. Our mission is to expand the options for postsecondary education for individuals with developmental disabilities throughout North Carolina. This website provides a list of resources pertaining to the PSE options across the state of North Carolina. In addition, you can find recent NCPSEA newsletters as well as information about upcoming alliance meetings.
Think College is an initiative of the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, funded by federal grants focused on postsecondary education for people with intellectual disabilities.
Key Activities
Coordination: Serves as the National Coordinating Center for the 27 federally-funded Transition Postsecondary Education Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) projects.
Training and Technical Assistance: Provides training and technical assistance through on-line learning modules, webinars, face to face training, and publications.
Dissemination: Develops, collects and shares resources related to postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities. Thinkcollege.net provides information aboutcollege programs that are available, a on-line searchable Resource Library as well as information about what is happening at the state level.
Research: Conducts research on current and promising practices that support individuals with intellectual disabilities to gain access to and be successful in inclusive postsecondary education, including conducting evaluation of the TPSID projects.