Next Steps for Adopting ALTITUDE

Approx. one year after the initial launch of the ALTITUDE Charter in March 2024, which kick-started a national conversation about we can embed a universal design approach in tertiary education, a significant number of ETBs and HEIs are now ready to adopt the Charter and commit to working towards its goals in the years ahead.

On Apr 9th, 2025, the project team partners are encouraging all tertiary institutions who are ready to adopt/have adopted, to release a public web statement declaring:

• their support for and adoption of the ALTITUDE Charter.
• their support for a national call to action for institutions and agencies to work towards a more universally designed tertiary education system.

This is essentially a mass communications exercise which will display a collective cross-tertiary commitment to universal design, raise awareness about ALTITUDE, and encourage other institutions and agencies to support this effort. We are working to engage with national agencies to echo this sentiment via statements of their own on Apr 9th.

The briefing document, available to download from the communications pack below, outlines:

1. A summary of the ALTITUDE Charter and how it was developed.
2. How ALTITUDE adoption can support your institution.
3. What it means for your institution to adopt the Charter.
4. Practical steps you can take to join the national call to action (Apr 9th) for institutions and agencies to work towards a more universally designed tertiary education system and publicly declare your adoption of ALTITUDE alongside other institutions.
5. Answers to frequently asked questions about the adoption of ALTITUDE.