For the past 10 years, InclusiveU in Syracuse University’s School of Education (SOE) has given students with intellectual and developmental disabilities a college experience in a fully inclusive setting.
On Thursday, April 4, family, friends and supporters of the program will gather in downtown Syracuse to celebrate the program, the largest and most inclusive program of its kind in the nation. Among the scheduled speakers at the anniversary gala are Syracuse University Chancellor and President Kent Syverud; State Sen. Rachel May (D-48); Captain Robert P. Taishoff ’86, JAGC, USN (Ret.), benefactor of the Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education; and Beth Myers, Lawrence B. Taishoff Associate Professor of Inclusive Education and executive director of the Taishoff Center in the School of Education.