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Allison P. Wayne; Andrew T. Roach; Krysta LaMotte; Mark Crenshaw; Emily Graybill – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) programs are interdisciplinary, graduate-level training programs that seek to promote improved outcomes for individuals with disabilities and their families. Many of these programs include individuals with disabilities as members of the self-advocacy discipline. In this…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Interdisciplinary Approach, Leadership Training, Disabilities
Kelli Listermann; Cristobal Salinas Jr. – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2024
Administrative assistants within the higher education system are a vital part of universities, including supporting students, faculty, and administrators. Although administrative assistants are essential to a college or university, they often lack recognition and salary support for their contributions. This applied qualitative study seeks to…
Descriptors: Females, Office Occupations, Higher Education, Salaries
Nathan F. Alleman; Cara Cliburn Allen; Sarah E. Madsen – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Studies about collegiate food insecurity show its prevalence as a national issue that disproportionately affects students from marginalized groups. This study further contextualizes this work, examining the ways that multiply-marginalized students navigate systems of privilege and opportunity at selective, normatively affluent universities to meet…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation, Hunger
Matthew T. Hora – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
Aspects of academic life and work that some may consider "normal," such as extensive meetings, brightly lit spaces, constant reading, and demands for continuous productivity, can be additionally debilitating for people with non-apparent disabilities like traumatic brain injury (TBI). These concerns affect the 28.3 percent of the academic…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Faculty, College Faculty, Accessibility (for Disabled)
Yi- Fan Li; Dalun Zhang; Heather M. Dulas; Mary L. Whirley – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
Students with disabilities are an increasing subpopulation in higher education. Recently, research has put an emphasis on students' voices to explore their academic learning experiences, as well as the learning strategies they use to overcome learning barriers. This study aimed to investigate the academic learning experiences of students with…
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Accessibility (for Disabled), Equal Education
Nachman, Brett Ranon – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2022
Prior research illustrates the predominance of autistic college students experiencing challenges in advocating for themselves. Drawing on Test and colleagues' (2005) four factors of self-advocacy, this qualitative case study examines how an autism-specific college support program (ASP) in a community college contributes to autistic college…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Self Advocacy, Community Colleges, Community College Students

Jeffrey Levi Palmer; Tia-Nikki Ivanko; Lore Kinast; Kate Lewandowski; Carrie Lou Bloom – Grantee Submission, 2024
This report examines common practices in providing support to deaf students across various postsecondary institutions in the United States, identifying both successful strategies and areas needing improvement. By evaluating the availability and effectiveness of services such as speech-to-text and interpreting, this report highlights gaps and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, College Students, Barriers
An Nguyen; Danielle Peers – Quest, 2025
This article offers a comparative thematic analysis of two datasets: the online writings of Autistic self-advocates on navigating neurotypical programs (emic dataset), and discussions on autism within the most widely circulated undergraduate Adapted Physical Activity (etic dataset). Our 3 themes describe some of the most significant ways that APA…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Adapted Physical Education, Self Advocacy
Jones, Sandra C. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Academia is underpinned by an apprenticeship model, with increasing recognition of the need for a 'cognitive apprenticeship' model in which the methods and strategies of academic success are learnt through participation in a community of inquiry. Autistic people face systemic barriers in academia, as in other professions, and these may be…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Career Choice, Apprenticeships, College Faculty
Duggan, Mary Frances – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The steady increase of students with disabilities (SWD) enrolling in higher education can lead to barriers regarding the continued receipt of academic supports that can ensure positive outcomes in college; these challenges to obtain equitable supports similar to those received in PK-12 can make college transition more difficult. The problem…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Students with Disabilities, College Students, Academic Support Services
Sonia T. Antunes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Autistic students are enrolling at higher educational institutions at an increasing rate. To keep up with the population of pupils, colleges and universities are finding ways to support students. Yet, a small percentage of students who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder do not succeed in attaining a degree. This trend is significant and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Academic Achievement, Success, College Students
Francis, Grace L.; Duke, Jodi M.; Fujita, Megan – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
The rate of college students with disabilities and co-occurring mental health disorders (D/MH) is steadily increasing across the U.S. However, despite available services and supports, the outcomes of these students lag behind their peers without D/MH. Further, little is known about the needs of students with D/MH, including barriers they…
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Mental Disorders, Comorbidity
Garfunkel, Steven – Communication Center Journal, 2021
The mission of university communication centers is to help all students succeed, and part of this mission is helping students with disabilities. The first component of helping students with disabilities within communication centers is to check that communication centers comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). However, compliance…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Academic Support Services, College Students
Lindsay Hartzler; Kitty Dong; Andrew Johnson Kliethermes; Kaitlyn Sandheinrich; Mark Wheatley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students with disabilities face many challenges as they transition to postsecondary education. These students are often unprepared for the rigor of postsecondary academics; they often lack self-efficacy skills and have limited awareness of postsecondary supports or cannot successfully access them. This study aims to give voice to college students…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Students, Transitional Programs, Student Attitudes
Kitty Dong; Lindsay Hartzler; Andrew Johnson Kliethermes; Kaitlyn Sandheinrich; Mark Wheatley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students with disabilities face many challenges as they transition to postsecondary education. These students are often unprepared for the rigor of postsecondary academics; they often lack self-efficacy skills and have limited awareness of postsecondary supports or cannot successfully access them. This study aims to give voice to college students…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Students, Transitional Programs, Student Attitudes