Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies

Faculty & Staff Directory - Sandra Horne

sandra.horne@umit.maine.edu

Coordinator for Community Engagement

University of Maine
Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies
5717 Corbett Hall, Rm 243B
Orono, ME 04469
207/581-1236 (V)
207/581-1084 (V/TTY)
800/203-6957 (V/TTY)
207/581-1231 (Fax)

Education:

Bangor Theological Seminary (2009 – current)

M.A. English, Bucknell University

B.A. English, Bloomsburg University

Project Affiliation:

• Ensuring Higher Education Opportunity for All — Replication Grant

Specialty Areas and Areas of Interest:

• Information dissemination
• Communication
• Community engagement
• Spiritual and congregational supports
• Self-advocacy and self-determination

Honors and Scholarships:

• Outstanding Major in English, College of Arts and Sciences, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA (1999)
• Summer Honors Scholars, Tempus Mirabile: Renaissance and Reformation Studies in Europe. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (1999)
• Helen Arthur Gulley Scholarship, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA (1999)
• Margaret Bittner Parke Scholarship, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA (1998)

Public Service:

• AmeriCorps Volunteer (Family Literacy Specialist/Education Support), Union-Snyder Community Action Agency  — Selinsgrove, PA (2002-2003)

Professional Memberships and Service:

• Council Secretary — Executive Committee, National Community Education Directors’ Council (NCEDC), Association of University Centers on Disabilities (2011-2014)
• CCIDS Representative — Maine Assistive Technology (AT) Consortia, Maine CITE, (2011-)
• Co-Leader, Maine State Team  – Allies in Self-Advocacy: Envisioning the Future Regional Summit (2011)
• Member – Steering Committee – National Community Education Directors’ Council (NCEDC), Association of University Centers on Disabilities (2010-)
• Member: Equity and Excellence in Higher Education Committee (2009-)
• Member: Spirituality and Faith Special Interest Group, Association of University Centers on Disabilities (2008-)
• Member: Information Dissemination/Consumer Satisfaction Workgroup, (NCEDC), Association of University Centers on Disabilities, (2007- )

Publications:

Horne, S. (2001). The summons. South Dakota Review, 39(1), 148-151.

Horne, S. (Spring, 1999). Adding up to poetry. (Cover story.) Bloomsburg: The University  Magazine. Office of Marketing and Communication, Bloomsburg University, 16-19.

Horne, S. (Spring, 1998). Creating impressive impressions. Bloomsburg: The University  Magazine. Office of Marketing and Communication, Bloomsburg University, 6-9.

Presentations:

Passman, T. & Horne, S. (2011). Here comes everybody: Universal design and organizational change in higher education. 2011 Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) Conference, Crystal City, VA. November 8, 2011.

Zeph, L., Passman, T., Horne, S., & Smith, V. (2007). Universal design in higher education: Systemic change in the academy. Poster presentation, 2007 Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) Conference, Washington, DC.

Horne, S. (1999). Spirituality in color and light: Stained glass as artistic expression and spiritual instruction in Florence’s Santa Maria del Fiore and Nuremburg’s St. Lorenz. Tempus Mirabile: Renaissance and Reformation Studies in Europe, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Summer Honors Program, Germany.

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