UDL to Boost First Generation Student Retention and Success
This session aims to answer the questions: How can the UDL framework help us design K-12 experiences that better prepare students who aspire to postsecondary success? How can higher education institutions use the UDL framework to meet the needs of first-generation students?
Today’s learner variability includes an increasing number of first-time collegiate students enrolled in classes. How can the UDL framework help us design K-12 experiences that better prepare students who aspire to postsecondary success? How can higher education institutions use the UDL framework to meet the needs of first-generation students?
We will share how stories from our teaching experience, emerging data from higher education, and research into what really impacts student success rates have convinced us UDL can be a tool to boost first generation student success.
Session Resources:
- First Generation Data and Research
- Academia is often a family business. That’s a barrier for increasing diversity (Science 2021)
- Stats in Brief: First-Generation and Continuing-Generation College Students: A Comparison of High School and Postsecondary Experiences (USDE 2017)
- The Unwritten Rules of College (The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015)
- Gould Evans Education Practice
- The Reading and Writing Lab for International Students at Carroll University
- Interactive Notes Document
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Posted date:
January 24, 2022