Accessibility,Inclusion,andIden2tyinStudyAbroadAResearchProgressReport

PaulEdwards(Mul6culturalCenterforAcademicExcellence)ChristopherJohnstone(Organiza6onalLeadership,Policy,andDevelopment)

Background,Ques6ons,andDilemmas Methods EmergingThemes&UnresolvedIssues

BackgroundandStatementofPresentKnowledge•  Mul6plescholarshaverecognizedthevalueoflearningabroadasacornerstoneto

studentinterculturalandleadershipdevelopment(Hadis,2005;Paige,Fry,Stallman,Josić,&Jon,2009).Further,studentswhostudyabroadaregenerallymorelikelytocompletecollegewithinfouryears(UniversityofMinnesota,2009).

•  Aposi6veimpactofstudyabroadoniden6tydevelopmentappliestodiversepopula6onsincludingstudentswithdisabili6esandotherunderrepresentedgroups(Loweetal.,2014;Shames&Alden,2005).

•  Recognizingthepowerfulbenefitsthatcanoccurinlearningabroad,theUniversityofMinnesotahasestablishedasystem-widegoaltosend50%ofitsundergraduatestudentsonlearningabroadexperiences.

•  Despitemanyprogramma6cinnova6ons,par6cipa6oninlearningabroadremainsoutofreachforanumberofstudentsinouruniversity.Overall,studentsofcolor,first-genera6onstudents,andstudentswithdisabili6esareunder-representedinlearningabroadprogramsna6onally(Lowe,Byron,&Mennicke,2014)andatourins6tu6on(UniversityofMinnesota,2014).

DilemmasintheLiterature1)ProceduralIssues:Lackofevidence-basedbestprac6ces2)Legal:LackofforceofADAoverseas;ins6tu6onalconcernsoverliability3)Cultural:Lackofadisabilitycultureintheins6tu6onorstudyabroadunit

ResearchProblemandApproach:•  Studentswithdisabili6esareunder-representedinlearningabroad

programs•  Thereisascantliteraturebaseoutliningpromisingprac6cesfor

enhancingtheenrollmentandexperien6allearningofstudentswithdisabili6esinlearningabroadprograms

•  Weseektoworkcollabora.velywithrequisiteuniversityofficestobe7erunderstandthepolicy,programma.c,andpersonnelneedsthatmightpredictimprovedlearningabroadpar.cipa.onratesforstudentswithdisabili.es.

SpecificResearchQues2ons:•  Whatprogramma6cstrategiesaremosteffec6veforaccessibilityin

learningabroadforstudentswithdisabili6es?•  Whatistheorganiza6onalcultureandpolicyenvironmentof

organiza6onsthatarefocusedoninclusioninstudyabroadforstudentswithdisabili6es?

•  Whatprograms,ifany,promoteinclusionofstudentswithdisabili6esbyappealingtodisabilityiden6tytopics?

CaseStudyApproach:•  Weexaminedorganiza6onsthat:

--Haveenrolledrela6velyhighnumbersofstudentswithdisabili6es

--Areregardedinthefieldashavingpar6cularlyinnova6veprograms

CaseExamplesUniversityofCaliforniaSystem UniversityofArizonaUniversityofMinnesota SyracuseUniversityUniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill

MobilityInterna6onal—USA

UnresolvedIssues•  Whatleadershipdimensionsareassociatedwithcommitmenttoaccessible

learningabroad?•  Howisdisabilityiden6tyconsidered(ifatall)inrecrui6ngandadvisingforlearning

abroad?•  Whatuniversaldesignapproachesareu6lizedtoimproverecruitmentand

reten6onofallstudents?•  Whattailoredrecruitmentapproaches(ifany)areworkingbestforuniversi6es?Otherareastopursue•  Presence/absenceofstudentvoicesindevelopmentofpoliciesandprocedures•  Responsivenessofins6tu6onalstakeholderstostudentvoices

References--Bergstaller,S.(Ed.).UniversalDesigninHigherEduca6on:FromPrinciplestoPrac6ce.Cambridge,MA:HarvardUniversityPress.

--Hadis,B.F.(2005).Whyaretheybeeerstudentswhentheycomeback?Determinantsofacademicfocusinggainsinthestudyabroadexperience.Fron6ers:TheInterdisciplinaryJournalofStudyAbroad,11,57-70.

--Lowe,M.R.,Byron,R.A.,&Mennicke,S.(2014).TheracializedimpactofstudyabroadonUSstudents’subsequentinterracialinterac6ons.Educa6onResearchInterna6onal,2014,9.doi:10.1155/2014/232687

--MobilityInterna6onal(n.d.).AccessAbroad.hep://www.miusa.org/accessabroad.

--NAFSA(2009).Educa6onAbroadAdvisingtoStudentswithDisabili6es.hep://www.nafsa.org/uploadedfiles/nafsa_home/resource_library_assets/publica6ons_library/adviseastuddis.pdf

--Paige,R.M.,Fry,G.W.,Stallman,E.M.,Josić,J.,&Jon,J.E.(2009).Studyabroadforglobalengagement:thelong-termimpactofmobilityexperiences.InterculturalEduca6on,20(sup1),S29-S44.

--Shames,W.,&Alden,P.(2005).Theimpactofshort-termstudyabroadontheiden6tydevelopmentofcollegestudentswithlearningdisabili6esand/orAD/HD.Fron6ers:TheInterdisciplinaryJournalofStudyAbroad,11,1-31.

--OpenDoors(2015)hep://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publica6ons/Open-Doors/Data/US-StudyAbroad/Students-with-Disabili6es/2013-14

--UniversityofMinnesota(2009):hep://umabroad.umn.edu/assets/files/PDFs/ci/Evalua6on%20Pages/Gradua6onRatesUMTC.pdf

--UniversityofMinnesota(2014):hep://umabroad.umn.edu/assets/files/sta6s6cs/UMTC_Summary_1213.pdf

--OpenDoors(2015)hep://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publica6ons/Open-Doors/Data/US-StudyAbroad/Students-with-Disabili6es/2013-14

--UniversityofMinnesota(2009)hep://umabroad.umn.edu/assets/files/PDFs/ci/Evalua6on%20Pages/Gradua6onRatesUMTC.pdf

--UniversityofMinnesota(2014)hep://umabroad.umn.edu/assets/files/sta6s6cs/UMTC_Summary_1213.pdf

Disclosuremaybes6gma6zing Earlydisclosurecan

supportplanningforaccommoda6ons

Dilemma#1:Procedural

Holben et al., 2014; Sonneson et al., 2015

Cultureisacoreelementof

learningabroadDisabilitycultureinreceivingcountryisrarelydiscussed

Ablaeva, 2012

Dilemma#3:Culture

Dilemma#2:LegalADAmandatesreasonable

accommoda6onsforUSprograms ADAdoesnotapply

extraterretorially

Kanter, 2003