UDE Programs in Postsecondary Institutions
The links on this page direct you to significant work in UDE that is based at colleges or universities.
The DEMOS project ran from 2000 to March 2003. The website presents the project's comprehensive online learning package aimed specifically at academic staff, examining the issues faced by disabled students in higher education. The research reports provide evidence of the need for UDE programming in post-secondary education.
University of Salford, University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and UMIST
"Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, as a Demonstration Project to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education, the mission of EnACT is to support students with disabilities within the
California State University in attaining their postsecondary educational goals."
California State University
A comprehensive website providing 5 discrete but interrelated training modules for college faculty, administrators, disability service providers, and students to improve the accommodations, teaching-learning process, and overall campus environment for students with disabilities.
The Ohio State University
"The HEATH Resource Center of The George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, is an online clearinghouse on postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities."
The George Washington University
"The CARS (creating accessible resources for staff) project ran from January 2003 to December 2005 and was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England as part of a major programme for improving disability provision.
This website, Making your teaching inclusive, was developed by the CARS project to support teaching staff in higher education institutions in England and Wales in understanding the needs of disabled students and teaching them effectively - thereby contributing significantly to an acknowledged high priority need in national disability provision."
The Open University, UK
"PASS IT seeks to address a compelling need in higher education by developing a corps of trainers to facilitate professional development workshops in the implementation of Universal Design (UD) and Universal Instructional Design (UID) in higher education".
University of Minnesota
"The Office of Disability Services at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) is working in collaboration with seven area colleges on this Demonstration Project funded by the Department of Education’s Office of Post Secondary Education. The project’s main objective is to “Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education.” The project intends to provide information, training and support in multiple formats to better assist faculty in meeting the academic needs of their students with disabilities by utilizing the concepts of Universal Design for Learning."
Springfield Technical Community College
The ACCESS Project at Colorado State University."This website offers information and resources about a new model of teaching and learning called Universal Design for Learning (UDL)."
Colorado State University
DO-IT serves to increase the participation of individuals with disabilities in challenging academic programs and careers. It promotes the use of computer and networking technologies to increase independence, productivity, and participation in education and employment.
University of Washington
"The vision of the National Center is to move beyond what has and has not worked in the past, towards a new system of educational supports for people with disabilities in the twenty-first century."
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
A website developed at Renton Community College that delineates the Universal Design for Learning Project (funded by the Department of Education) they developed. Good information on UDL teaching and AT (specifically, devices available on their campuses). We have sourced specific pages by topics in our "Tools & Products" section.
Renton Community College
UID Project: May 2002 -December 2003
University of Guelph Ontario, Canada
