Equity, diversity, and inclusion are crucial to 21st-century higher education and are increasingly discussed, critiqued, and improved with multiple approaches to recognize intersectionalities and enact positive change in work, research, teaching, and learning (Byrd, Brunn-Bevel, & Ovink 2019).Undergraduate learners come to the classroom as a diverse mosaic with different cultures, talents, disciplinary backgrounds, orientations, lifestages, and classroom expectations. Instructors can deliberately design for equity, diversity, and inclusion, including for large first-year classes.Equity, diversity, and inclusion in teaching and learning are frequently discussed on the level of principle and theory, and it is important to translate work for all educators for implementation and practice, including teaching strategies useful to helping across disciplines (Hartwell et al., 2017).
| Universal design for learning (UDL) can be implemented in classrooms to foster equity, diversity, and inclusionUniversal design for learning (UDL) is an educational framework that can help design classrooms that are inclusive of all students,