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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