Founder and director of disabled students' services, UC Riverside and UC Davis
By: Joel Bryan ; an interview conducted by Susan O'Hara in 1997 and 2000 ; Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: O'Hara, Susan P., interviewer.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Bryan, Joel, 1937-; University of California, Riverside. Student Special Services.; University of California, Davis. Services to Handicapped Students.; Handicapped Opportunity Program for Education.; United States.; College administrators -- California -- Interviews.; Students with disabilities -- Services for -- California.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Topics covered include: family background in foreign service; onset of polio in the Philippines, 1950; rehab at Kabat-Kaiser, 1951-1954; independent living skills, India and Pakistan; UC Riverside, B.A., and career: HOPE (Handicapped Opportunity Program for Education) and Special Services; UC Davis, Office of Handicapped Services: accessibility, ACR-201 funding, affirmative action; connections between UC Berkeley, Davis and Riverside access efforts; marriage and family; reflections on independent living skills and post-polio syndrome.