ERIC Number: ED641496
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jan
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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Measures to Improve Postsecondary Education Outcomes for Students with a Disability: First Data Report on Students with Disabilities in Colorado Institutions of Higher Education. Report to the Education Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Colorado General Assembly as Part of the State Measures for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent Government Act Hearing. Statute: C.R.S. §23-79-102
Colorado Department of Higher Education
In April 2022, HB22-1255, "Concerning Measures to Improve Postsecondary Education Outcomes for Students with Disabilities" was signed into law by Governor Jared Polis. This is the first statewide report to include data on students with disabilities (SWDs). Colorado colleges and universities needed to develop processes and procedures to capture the data in a reportable fashion. To do so was a coordinated effort amongst many departments and divisions at the institutions as well as with the CDHE. As a result, conversations are ongoing as to how to best and most accurately capture the number of students with disabilities enrolled at the state's colleges and universities. Further, as this is the first required report and institutions of higher education (IHEs) were not previously collecting these data in a reportable fashion, the "available data" requested in the act could not yet include fall to fall retention numbers as well as graduation numbers. Additionally, this first report was a pilot data collection solicited via a spreadsheet from each IHE. In the future, the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) will include SWD in the Student Unit Record Data System (SURDS) which allows data analysis (as available) listed in the act.
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Outcomes of Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Data, Enrollment Rate, Postsecondary Education
Colorado Department of Higher Education. 1560 Broadway Suite 1600, Denver, CO 80202. Tel: 303-866-2723; Fax: 303-866-4266; Web site: http://highered.colorado.gov
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Colorado Department of Higher Education
Identifiers - Location: Colorado
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