This month, I’m sharing an article I co-authored, Messy Inclusion: A Call for Dignity of Risk in Inclusive Postsecondary Education (Bumble et al., 2022). In it, we emphasize that risk is not one-size-fits-all—it exists on a spectrum and can look different from day to day. How risk is approached often depends on the culture, values, and priorities of IPSE programs, families, students, and the broader campus community.
To support reflection on this complexity, the article introduces a continuum that compares four types of risk: manufactured risk, programmed risk, managed risk, and authentic risk.
This month, I’m sharing an article I co-authored, Messy Inclusion: A Call for Dignity of Risk in Inclusive Postsecondary Education (Bumble et al., 2022). In it, we emphasize that risk is not one-size-fits-all—it exists on a spectrum and can look different from day to day. How risk is approached often depends on the culture, values, and priorities of IPSE programs, families, students, and the broader campus community.
To support reflection on this complexity, the article introduces a continuum that compares four types of risk: manufactured risk, programmed risk, managed risk, and authentic risk.
This continuum can help programs think about where their current practices fit and how they might create more opportunities for authentic risk-taking in the next school year. In my experience, when people aren’t given the chance to take risks, it can hurt their sense of control over their own lives. People grow the most when they have the opportunity to take managed or authentic risks. You can read the full article by clicking here. If you can’t open the link, email us and we will send you a copy.
