Inclusive Pedagogy: Benefitting All Learners

The prevalence of students with disabilities and learning differences attending college is steadily increasing. This calls for reform among educators to adjust their teaching practices to serve this diversity of learners more effectively. Traditional methods for addressing disability and learning differences within the college classroom put the responsibility on individual students to request accommodations and adapt their learning to the outlined course requirements. Inclusive pedagogy creates learning that is “meaningful, relevant, and accessible to all.” This represents an institution-wide shift in mindset and responsibility toward creating content, instructional delivery, and assessments that are accessible, equitable, and beneficial for everyone. This presentation hopes to outline how post-secondary education has dealt with disability within the classroom historically and how it should continue to advance in the understanding and utilization of best teaching practices, such as the inclusive approach, to support all student

I Am Capable : The Intersection of Intellectual Disability and Higher Education

Historically, institutions of higher education have screened for high academic achievement, and screened out those who have significant barriers to learning. The question has been, Why would these students want to go to college? The answer is, Because they are capable, with support. University-based programs for students with intellectual disabilities (ID) began appearing after the passage of the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act. Program goals were to increase employment rate (just 18% for adults with ID) and independence. Aggies Elevated at USU currently serves 14 students with ID, has an 86% post-graduation employment rate (29 graduates), and has seen 34% of graduates continue with associate\u27s and bachelor\u27s degrees, unsupported. Approximately 20% of the world\u27s population has a disability. If there are 10,000 students on the Logan campus, 2,000 of them probably have a disability. We have 14 Aggies Elevated students. Are the other 1,986 students in one of your classes? This presentation will discuss the dignity of risk, a brief review of the purpose and benefits of campus-based programs for students with ID (and for the campus community), the benefits of accommodations and assistive technology, and strategies for working with and supporting all students with disabilities

Marine microfossil compilation up to 2021

This dataset includes a global compilation of new and published 14C measurements of benthic foraminifera and deep-sea corals (from 0-to 49872 years BP). We synthesized this new dataset into basin-average 14C ventilation age values over the 25,000 years, along density surfaces associated with the upper and lower cells of global ocean overturning circulation (27.5 and 28 kg m^-3, respectively). The published datasets are from all ocean basins, even those not utilized in our synthesis. We also provide the basin-average estimates for the Atlantic, Southern, and Pacific Oceans as produced by the Rafter et al. 2022 study

Marine fossil radiocarbon (14C) compilation up to 2021, version 2024

Using a new global compilation of deep-sea 14C/C, we estimated (in Rafter et al. 2022) the average D14C (units of per mil) and 14C ventilation age (units of years) over the last 25,000 years for the deep Pacific, Atlantic, and Southern Oceans. Particularly, we estimated these basin averages for mid-depth waters (between the 27.5 to 28.0 neutral density surfaces) and bottom waters (having a neutral density >28.0). These basin averages are calculated using LOESS smoothing, but see the original text for more details. Our reasons for uploading this new data are: (1) An earlier dataset here contained an error for the mid-depth Atlantic; (2) Earlier datasets did not include the trends as D14C values; and (3) Earlier datasets did not include the Raw data (the data before normalization). We have corrected this with the new submission. Please cite the Rafter et al. 2022 when using this dataset