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Biography

Mary Judge Diegert is the recently appointed 2025-30 Think College National Coordinating Center Accreditation Workgroup Chair (former committee member 2020-25), located at the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is a liaison to the Inclusive Higher Education Accreditation (IHEA) Council. She has co-led five programs through the IHEA Council accreditation pilot site process and conducted peer reviewer training. Judge-Diegert led the redesign of the IHEA Council accreditation guidance manual and co-authored the 2020-25 National Coordinating Center Accreditation Workgroup Report to Congress. 

Judge-Diegert was the program coordinator of the New York City TPSID Consortium from 2015 to 2020 with the City University of New York (CUNY), AHRC NYC, and the New York City Department of Education to expand five college programs for students with intellectual disability through the U.S. Department of Education-funded $2.5 million TPSID grant, resulting in the creation of a credential program, CUNY Unlimited, and four U.S. Department of Education-approved CTP programs at CUNY colleges. 

She co-leads the New York Inclusive Higher Education Coalition, a group comprising colleges, agencies, and families dedicated to promoting inclusive higher education throughout New York State. She formerly co-led the Northeast Postsecondary Education Alliance, consisting of postsecondary program leaders from Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Judge-Diegert has research interests in access and equity to education for all students with disabilities.