Universal Design Education Program Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ostroff, Elaine
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content: Elaine Ostroff Universal Design Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993-2008
label: Date
content: bulk 1993-1998
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1356, Series 3
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of materials about the Universal Design Education Program created by Ostroff in 1989 as a project of the Adaptive Environments Center. The program awarded grants through a national competitions. It was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to increase the understanding of universal design concepts across curricula in interior design, architecture, landscape architecture, product design, and urban planning. Ostroff was the project director. Many of the organizations awarded a grant held universal design conferences, symposia, and charettes. 

The materials are arranged alphabetically by name of the academic institution (e.g. Michigan State University) and consist of correspondence, memoranda, proposals, reports, photographs, slides, diskettes, questionnaires and evaluation data, financial data, case study comments, and conference-related materials for each school that was awarded a grant.  Additional materials documenting the UDEP program are also included.  This includes presentations and materials for the First International Conference on Universal Design (1998) held at Hofstra University in New York.