CAMP+U - CDS

Ensure Success, Fulfill Potential: Supporting students for a successful postsecondary experience while fostering a sense of community that meets their needs

CAMP+U is a collaborative initiative that empowers students with learning differences to succeed in higher education. It supports a wide range of needs, including learning disabilities, attention differences, sensory processing, and executive functioning, while centering students from Indigenous and underrepresented communities, including Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.

This project addresses the critical need to support faculty, staff and administrators to work more successfully for completion of postsecondary students through inclusive practices by providing a field tested, evidence-based PD. In the research study, we explored factors that extant research linked to student success and retention: academic resilience, general resilience, and sense of belonging. Lastly, through partnerships we supported sensor integration through a mobile sensory kit across the UH system.

CAMP+U Course

This 5 module online training, equips faculty, staff, and administrators with practical strategies to design inclusive learning environments that centers belonging as a core component. Topics include:

Disability awareness
Universal Design for Learning
Student Centered practices
Community building
Sensory integration

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Data-Driven Approaches

Our work is grounded in a multi-year, mixed-methods study on inclusive practices in higher education.

Pre/post surveys and participatory action research (talk story, photovoice)
Insights from students, faculty, and staff
Evidence of impact on teaching efficacy, student belonging and success

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Sensory Spaces

We support campuses in creating sensory-friendly environments that promote regulation, well-being, and belonging. Learn more about our work across the UH 10 campus system designing, installing, and researching sensory spaces.

Mobile sensory kits with multi-sensory tools
Designed for stress management and self-regulation

Access the Sensory Space Resource Hub

Impact

What CAMP+U participants say about the impact of the course:

My focus moving forward will be on modeling and being more explicit about demonstrating those multiple ways of engagement, representation, action and expression by doing that. I hope that I reach all learners within that range, and then that they start to learn about how they can do that in their classrooms. (Faculty)

The main thing that is going to change is being more intentional about what I’m doing and knowing why I’m doing it, other than it just seems like the right thing to do, but knowing that what I’m doing creates psychological safety, or knowing that what I’m doing will allow for students to have a sense of agency in the classroom. (Faculty)

Some things that I have started to see as pukas … what I was missing was those specific things that I could implement, making sure my syllabus was accessible to all and provided good instructional design. I’ve been able to get some specific strategies for how to provide support to all students. (Counselor)

They just really made the whole environment that they have here, where you feel very comfortable to ask questions…my instructors made it feel like you could really ask them anything, and you won’t be judged. (Student)