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Jessica Lopez; Fletcher Grey – Online Submission, 2025
Approximately 19 percent of undergraduate students in the United States identify as having a disability, yet postsecondary institutions often lack the legal infrastructure necessary to support their academic success. National data show that only 49.6 percent of disabled students graduate from four-year institutions, compared to 68.1 percent of…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Higher Education, Disability Discrimination, Equal Education
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Garberoglio, Carrie Lou; Johnson, Paige M.; Sales, Adam; Cawthon, Stephanie W. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2021
Educational attainment is a crucial contributor to postsecondary achievement for deaf people, as a key component of narrowing employment gaps. Fewer deaf people complete high school and postsecondary education than their hearing peers, resulting in severe educational attainment gaps. However, secondary data analyses of the American Community…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Attainment, High School Graduates, College Graduates
Amanda N. Sharp – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Since the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 many works related to the ADA and how higher education programs comply with the ADA have been published. However, few studies have investigated the factors associated with educational completion for students with physical disabilities (SWPD) in physical therapist programs. The…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Doctoral Students, Physical Therapy
Qing Zang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study mainly talks about U.S. PhD education and applications of machine learning methods. On one hand, PhD education, as a way to cultivate future researchers, attracts a lot of attention. On the other hand, machine learning methods are utilized more and more often in academic research. This study, as an attempt, would like to contribute to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Social Discrimination
Cheng, L.; Shaewitz, D. – Institute for Educational Leadership, 2022
The 2022 Youth Transition Report underscores the persistent and pernicious gap between youth and young adults with disabilities and those without disabilities on measures of success in education, employment, opportunity, and poverty. While data and reports exist for the working-age adult population and children with disabilities, the Institute for…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Attainment, Employment Level, Poverty
Cheng, L.; Shaewitz, D. – Institute for Educational Leadership, 2021
The 2021 Youth Transition Report underscores the persistent and pernicious gap between youth and young adults with disabilities and those without disabilities on measures of success in education, employment, opportunity, and poverty. While data and reports exist for the working-age adult population and children with disabilities, the Institute for…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Attainment, Employment Level, Poverty