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Hanna Lopatina; Natalia Tsybuliak; Anastasiia Popova; Olha Hurenko; Yana Suchikova – Research in Education, 2024
Quality higher education involves making it accessible to students with special needs and disabilities. Therefore, the implementation of inclusive education is a certain indicator of quality among higher education institutions (HEIs). At the same time, faculty members play a fundamental role in promoting inclusive learning environments working…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Susan Krauss Whitbourne; Lauren Marshall Bowen; Nina M. Silverstein; Joann M. Montepare; Jeffrey E. Stokes – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Population aging presents opportunities and challenges for higher education. Increasingly, age-diverse student populations are entering into or returning to postsecondary education; meanwhile, campuses are workplaces where faculty and staff are aging-in-place. Yet, age bias and discrimination continue to exist in institutions of higher education.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Age, Age Groups, Inclusion
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Mirjam Fines-Neuschild; Tanja Tajmel – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Since 2019, equity, diversity, and inclusion have become institutional priorities for Canadian funding agencies and universities under the acronym EDI. Here, we examine for the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) how the current EDI discourse unfolds in scientists' understandings as "EDI construct." This…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Intersectionality, Social Bias, Equal Education
Brittany House Conrad – ProQuest LLC, 2022
White senior-level student affairs professionals are well-positioned to address issues of social justice and inclusion, oppression, privilege, power, and Whiteness within the field of student affairs. Their level of responsibility, scope of interaction and influence, and professional position provide senior-level student affairs professionals with…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Whites, Social Justice, Inclusion
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Xin Wang; Xiulan Wan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
The employability of graduates in South Africa is a crucial issue that requires attention from educational institutions due to its impact on the economy, the challenges faced by graduates, and the need to support students in developing employability skills. Therefore, the present study aims to explore educational perspectives on fostering graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Inclusion
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Crenshaw, Andrea N.; Ramsay-Jordan, Natasha N.; Deskins, Allyson – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2023
Microaggressions are brief and everyday slights, insults, indignities, and denigrating messages sent to people of color and/or marginalized groups (women, LGBTQ+, etc.) by well-intentioned [people] who are unaware of the hidden messages being communicated (Sue et al., 2007). Microaggressions are connected to broader conceptualizations of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, School Personnel, Attitudes, Aggression
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Arindam Chakrabarty; Anil Kumar Singh – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2025
Purpose: India has been withstanding increasing pressure of enrolment in the higher education system, resulting in the creation of new universities in consonance with the recommendations of the Knowledge Commission (2007). Barring a few institutions of paramount excellence, the mushrooming universities fail to conform to equitability of quality…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment Rate, Universities, Educational Quality
Ashley DeMoville – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Although systemic racism has always been a persistent problem in university theater training (Community of BIPOC Theatremakers, 2020a), heightened calls for action began in the late spring and early summer of 2020. In July 2020, some 300 BIPOC theater-makers drafted and signed an open letter to the theater industry at large (Community of BIPOC…
Descriptors: Racism, Higher Education, Theater Arts, Drama
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Gobec, Charlotte; Rillotta, Fiona; Raghavendra, Parimala – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: Adults with intellectual disability who attended higher education programs have reported increasing self-determination, developing social skills and forming relationships. However, there is limited evidence about what adults with intellectual disability do after they complete such programs. This study investigated the experiences of…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Higher Education, Inclusion
Samantha W. Ridgway – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the experiences of disabled students in higher education and strategies for creating more accessible learning environments. Despite increasing enrollment, disabled students remain marginalized in diversity efforts, with current approaches focusing on individual accommodations rather than systemic barriers. The research…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Higher Education, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Educational Environment
Samantha W. Ridgway – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the experiences of disabled students in higher education and strategies for creating more accessible learning environments. Despite increasing enrollment, disabled students remain marginalized in diversity efforts, with current approaches focusing on individual accommodations rather than systemic barriers. The research…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Higher Education, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Educational Environment
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Liao, Shu-Min – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2023
SCRATCH, developed by the Media Lab at MIT, is a kid-friendly visual programming language, designed to introduce programming to children and teens in a "more thinkable, more meaningful, and more social" way. Although it was initially intended for K-12 students, educators have used it for higher education as well, and found it…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Coding, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education
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Bunbury, Stephen – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
The study focuses on the importance of inclusive curriculum design in Higher Education (HE) and the impact of reasonable adjustments in ensuring inclusive practices. Although making reasonable adjustments attempts to ensure inclusivity, the data gathered suggests that some staff struggle to accommodate disabled students, due to a lack of…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Higher Education, Students with Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
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Dwyer, Heather; Smith, Joyya – To Improve the Academy, 2020
This article explores the effectiveness of a mandatory training workshop for faculty. Our center for teaching and learning (CTL) was charged with designing and implementing a diversity training workshop for all full-time faculty. The workshop included an introduction to diversity and inclusion, analysis of microaggressions, discussion of inclusive…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Workshops, Training, Student Diversity
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Cole, Rose M.; Heinecke, Walter F. – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
Contemporary college student activism has been particularly visible and effective in the past few years at US institutions of higher education and is projected only to grow in future years. Almost all of these protests and demands, while explicitly linked to social and racial justice, are sites of resistance to the neoliberalization of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Activism, Higher Education, Neoliberalism
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