Mon January 23 2011- Explore Your Future: UC Berkeley invites students with Disabilities to explore Campus on Ed Roberts Day!

UC Berkeley’s Invitation to A College Campus Visit For High School Students with Disabilities

On January 23, 2012

Explore Your Future

Who:  The Disabled Students’ Program at the University of California, Berkeley, in cooperation with the Berkeley Center for Independent Living (CIL), is opening the Cal campus to area high school students with disabilities. Support has been provided by the Thunen Family Foundation and William “Sandy” Muir and Paulette “Pauli” Muir.

What:  During the program, area high school students with disabilities will engage in a short session on “how to” get into college, as well as enjoy a tour of the Cal college campus. The entire program will take about 90 minutes.

Where: Identical tours will begin at 9am, 11am and 1pm, in the Alumni House on UC Berkeley’s campus (near Bancroft Way and the Haas Pavilion). Pick a time and call-in your reservation request (see contact person’s name below).

When: This program will be held on January 23, 2012, in observance of the statewide Ed Roberts’ Day celebration – recently enacted and sponsored by State Senator Loni Hancock (invited). 

Why:  As a student at Cal, Ed Roberts helped this campus learn how to serve students with disabilities. He also founded the Berkeley CIL.  Ed Roberts forever changed the landscape for people with disabilities in our community, state, nation and the world. Come and build your future. For more about Ed Roberts see: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/07/27/roberts/

 For more information about this event; or to make a reservation for your school contact: Paul Hippolitus, Director of the Disabled Students’ Program at Hippolitus@berkeley.edu; or call 510-642-8783.