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(2022) . Faculty perspectives on UDL: Exploring bridges and barriers for broader adoption in higher education The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13(1) .  \n[https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2022.1.13588](https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2022.1.13588)  \nFaculty Perspectives on UDL: Exploring Bridges and Barriers for Broader Adoption in Higher Education  \nAbstract  \nUniversal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies aim to reduce learning barriers in the classroom for all students and remove the need for students with disabilities to advocate on their own behalf. Leadership in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has a role to play in advancing inclusive learning cultures in higher education. At the frontline of higher education delivery, faculty are best positioned to implement UDL practices. Initiatives to encourage broader implementation of UDL require an understanding of the barriers and opportunities in higher education. Published studies that investigate faculty understanding and implementation of UDL have been almost exclusively conducted in US institutions. Our study enriches the existing literature through a mixed methods approach with interviews and a faculty survey in a Canadian context. Themes revealed in our interviews were reinforced by survey findings. Many of the issues raised by faculty, including time and resource constraints, a lack of institutional support, and a lack of understanding are consistent with previous research done in the US, highlighting the systemic challenges for UDL implementation in higher education. To conclude, we explore the limits of a strictly bottom-up approach and contend, in line with recent studies, that top-down initiatives are also vital to encouraging broader implementation of UDL practices.  \nLes stratégies de la conception universelle de l’apprentissage (UDL-Universal Design for Learning) visent à réduire pour les étudiants et les étudiantes les obstacles à l’apprentissage dans la salle declasse et à supprimer le besoin qu’ont les étudiants et les étudiantes handicapés de défendre leursintérêts pour eux-mêmes. Le leadership en matière de recherche en enseignement et en apprentissage a un rôle à jouer pour faire avancer la culture de l’apprentissage inclusif dans l’enseignementsupérieur. En première ligne de l’enseignement supérieur, les professeurs et les professeures sont bien placés pour mettre en application les pratiques de la conception universelle de l’apprentissage (UDL). Les initiatives pour encourager une mise en application plus vaste de la conception universelle del’apprentissage exigent une compréhension des obstacles et des opportunités dans l’enseignementsupérieur. Les études publiées qui portent sur la compréhension des professeurs et des professeureset sur la mise en oeuvre de la conception universelle de l’apprentissage ont presque toutes été menées dans des établissements américains. Notre étude enrichit les publications existantes grâce à une approche à méthodes multiples, à des entrevues et à un sondage auprès de professeurs et de professeures, dans un contexte canadien. 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