[Cabs-talk] FW: College Campus visit, Jan 22, 2013. flyer, see details

[Angela Fowler]

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Subject: Fwd: College Campus visit, Jan 22, 2013. flyer, see details 


UC Berkeley’s Invitation to 
A College Campus Visit
For High School Students with Disabilities
On January 22, 2013

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. 

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. Here’s last year’s event: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/24/ed-roberts-day-2012/

Where: The Alumni House on UC Berkeley’s campus (near Bancroft Way and the Haas Pavilion). 

When: This program will be begin at 11:00 am until 12:30pm, on Tuesday, January 22, 2012, in observance of the statewide Ed Roberts’ Day celebration which is January 23rd – a day recently enacted by the California State Legislature 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 to this event and begin to 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 at berkeley.edu; or call 510-642-8783.