This paper examines design decisions that were written down and enacted by learning design practitioners across 18 projects at a postsecondary institution. Through emergent coding of decisions recorded in a Learning Engineering Evidence and Decision (LEED) tracker in situ, this research answers 3 questions: (1) how do practitioners track and cite…

Background: Third-level education is a relatively new opportunity for people with intellectual disabilities. The development of third-level educational opportunities for this population rests on understanding their experiences and suggestions for programme development and improvement. The aim of this study is to establish how inclusive third-level…

While a variety of definitions persist, a common definition of physical literacy is that it encompasses the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities over the lifespan. While this perspective to physical literacy is broad, a great deal of…

Postsecondary education (PSE) programs for students with intellectual disability should be built around a course of study leading to a meaningful credential. Typically, programs award a non-degree credential available only to students who are attending the program. In addition to or instead of these program-specific credentials, students in these…

Background: Individuals with intellectual disability in the United States have historically been underemployed due to societally constructed barriers. Recently, more individuals with intellectual disability have been attending Inclusive Postsecondary Education (IPSE) programmes, which have contributed to improving their employment outcomes.…

This brief offers an updated look at the wage outcomes for Baltimore City Public Schools graduates six and ten years after high school graduation, continuing the conversation from a previous study published in 2018 which examined outcomes for the class of 2009. The latest results provide new information for additional cohorts and a longer…

The IPEDS Finance survey is a key resource for academic research, policy analysis, and efforts to improve transparency and accountability. However, the data from the survey can be difficult to use properly. This research note addresses a specific challenge: how to incorporate the $16 billion in revenues and expenditures reported annually within…

Despite worldwide expansion of higher education, the impact of higher education institutions on local economic activity is still poorly understood. We analyze the local economic effects of branch campus openings in Tennessee and Texas, two states representative of the underlying U.S. enrollment patterns. To overcome the lack of adequate data, we…

State-level postsecondary education governance has experienced a lull in successful reform efforts since the turn of the century. However, in 2020, the Utah System of Higher Education and Utah System of Technical Colleges were formally merged following a multi-year effort by state legislators and higher education officials. Framed by the theory of…

This study analyses industry-specific training programmes catering to the garment industry in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. Employing a historical-institutionalist perspective and using mainly qualitative data, it focuses on programmes that are considered particularly relevant by the industry and discuss their characteristics as well as…

We introduce a new metric--the classification power--to examine the effectiveness of postsecondary mathematics placement policies. This metric addresses the methodological challenges of contextualizing the effectiveness of a single placement policy and comparing the effectiveness of multiple placement policies across different student populations.…

This brief offers an updated look at the postsecondary and workforce destinations during the first fall after high school among Baltimore City Public Schools graduates from the classes of 2009 through 2020, continuing the conversation from a previous study published in 2018 which examined outcomes for the class of 2009. Additionally, for the first…

This year, The Institute for College Access & Success is focused on understanding how specific communities in Michigan experience the K-12 to higher education to workforce pipeline to help advocates and policymakers better support their specific needs. This fact sheet focuses on how Michigan's Hispanic/Latino students and families, members of…

We investigate the contribution of the disability education gap to the disability employment gap in the European Union. We find that educational attainment is a major factor determining the probability of employment among persons with disabilities and that the employment effects of tertiary education are much larger among persons with disabilities…

The optimal functioning of centralized allocation systems is undermined by the presence of institutions operating off-platform--a feature common to virtually all real-world implementations. These off-platform options generate justified envy, as students may reject their centralized assignment in favor of an outside offer, leaving vacant seats in…