Think College Insight Brief #28 features the University of Central Florida which began planning for an inclusive college experience for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) at the end of 2014, and enrolled the first students in the fall of 2015. John Kotter’s eight-step change model describes a progression used by the planning team to build the inclusive experience.
Researchers explored 11 of Florida’s inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs for individuals with intellectual disability (ID), during the 2016 and 2017 academic years. The researchers sought to explore, the nature of academic access as well as the programs of study available to students with ID within Florida’s IPSE programs. Researchers found the majority (73%; n=8) of IPSE programs in this study (n=11) housed at three universities, three community and state colleges, and two career technical colleges.
