Greg Richardson

1. ICCTE Conference
Responding to God’s Call to Serve:
Achieving the Educational Challenges of this Decade
May 23-26, 2012
Greg Richardson
Azusa Pacific University

2. • Statement of the Problem
• The Purpose
• Review of the Literature
• Conclusion
• Recommendation

3.  Low attainment of postsecondary degrees
 Inadequate supports for special needs students

4. The research purpose is to explore the differences
in postsecondary academic outcomes
of students with special needs
who receive appropriate supports and
those who do not.

5. • Educational Attainment
• Historical Inequities in Higher Education
• Higher Education in the 21st Century
• Social Justice
• Societal and Cultural Insensitivities

6. • Advantages of Higher Learning
• Intellectual property
• Acquisition of wealth
• Federal Legislation
• IDEA and NCLB
• IEPs
• Increases in High School Completion Rates
• Students with disabilities
• Awareness of Higher Learning
• Opportunity
• Equitable systems

7. Rights of Passage
• The European University System
• The Trivium
• The Quadrivium
• Medieval scholars
• Clergymen and thinkers
• Aristotle’s philosophies

8. Colonial Colleges
• Equity in Higher Education
• College establishments
• Individualized development
• John Hancock
• Unalienable rights
• Rights of passage
• Collegiate Education
• Community Value
• Clergyman or Commerce

9. Clientele
• Upper social strata
• Women and other minorities
• Students with disabilities
Demand and Supply

10. The Value of Equity in Societal Concerns
• Students with Special Needs Acquiring Degrees
• Opportunity
• Accessibility
• Moving Beyond Opportunity to Equity
• Defining Equity
• Equitable Systems in HE
• Landmark Legal Cases
• Unequal Outcomes
• Accommodations

11. The Value of Equity in Societal Concerns
• When Justice Exists in the Academy
• Fairness and Justice
• The First Virtue
• The Law
• Equity
• Social Scales in the Academy
• Higher Learning Acquisition
• Proficiency Demonstration
• Two Dimensions of Equity
• Fairness
• Inclusion

12. The Philosophical Roots of Equity
• Locke and Rousseau
• Kant

13. • Transitioning from Secondary to Postsecondary
• Justice and Equality
• Cardinal Virtues
• The Disposition of Virtue
• Justice in the Scriptures
• Three Kinds of Justice
• Transitioning from…
Internal Justice to Social Justice

14. • The Values of Social Justice
• Teleological Causation
• Moving from Moral Rightness to Social
Rightness
• The HE Classroom

15. • Issues That Arise for Special Needs Students
• Cultural Deficits
• Fairness
• The ‘60s Civil Rights Movement
• Equity from a HE Platform
• Self-identification in HE
• HE Support Services
• HE Academic Delivery Systems

16. The future for students with special needs in
the academy is bright. However, it is
important to implement diverse services for
special needs students to increase their
postsecondary academic successes

17. Map the future by providing:
•S = Self-efficacy development initiatives
•U = Underrepresented change agents
•P = Professors and Para-educator advocates
•P = Peer collaborations
•O = Organizational involvements
•R = Resiliency agents during turbulent times
•T = Tenacity coaching
(Copy write 2012, Gregory Richardson)

18. When the appropriate support is provided for
students who have special needs we will see more
academic degrees attained, and more innovative
societal contributions made like those provided by:
Dr. Temple Grandin
&
Dr. Steven Hawking

19. Contact the presenter for the list of references
Gregory Richardson
Azusa Pacific University, HDRC
15283 Pahute Avenue
Victorville, CA 92395

20. Questions & Answers
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