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A faculty member at East Tennessee State University is participating in a major research project helping persons with disabilities transition from the K-12 environment to new settings such as independent living, employment or post-secondary education. ETSU is part of the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth with Disabilities, an initiative led by the University of North Carolina-Charlotte that also includes researchers from George Washington University, the ...

Class of 2020 Success Stories: MACIE program enhances Iraqi students leadership skills as a cross-cultural education scholar By Bob Cunningham ’18 Shadan Albakua’s life was forever changed in June 2014 when the city of Mosul fell to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents. More than 500,000 Iraqi civilians became displaced because of the violence, including Albakua and her family. “We lost our sense of belonging and, after that, we became a different family,” she said. �...