[il-talk] Fw: [NCSRC MEMBERS] FYI - FW: National Rehabilitation Association (NRA) Announces New Executive Director, Fred Schroeder

[Robert Gardner]

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Subject: FW: [NCSRC MEMBERS] FYI - FW: National Rehabilitation Association 
(NRA) Announces New Executive Director

FYI -
New NRA Executive Director announced.

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Subject: [NCSRC MEMBERS] FYI - FW: National Rehabilitation Association (NRA) 
Announces New Executive Director

See below



From: Patricia Leahy [mailto:patricia at nationalrehab.org]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:48 PM
To: Ms. Marlene S. Malloy
Subject: National Rehabilitation Association (NRA) Announces New Executive 
Director





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To:        All Members of the National Rehabilitation Association



From:    Patricia Leahy, Interim Executive Director



Re:        NRA Announces New Executive Director



Date:     Monday, April 14, 2014




It is with great pleasure and excitement that the National Rehabilitation 
Association announces the selection of The Honorable Fredric K. Schroeder as 
NRA's new Executive Director.


Dr. Schroeder has accepted the National Rehabilitation Association's 
invitation to join the staff as Executive Director beginning in May of 2014.


Dr. Schroeder earned a BA in Psychology in 1971 and a Master's degree in 
Education in 1978 from San Francisco State University and completed 
post-graduate work in Orientation and Mobility in 1980.  Dr. Schroeder is 
also the first blind individual in the Nation to be admitted to a university 
program in Orientation and Mobility.

In 1980, Dr. Schroeder returned to New Mexico to work as a teacher of blind 
children for the Albuquerque public schools.


In 1994, Dr. Schroeder earned a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the 
University of New Mexico.


Dr. Schroeder began his career in his home State of New Mexico where in the 
early 80s, Dr. Schroeder helped establish the New Mexico Commission for the 
Blind.  Beginning in 1986, Dr. Schroeder worked for 7 years as the first 
Executive Director of the newly-created Commission for the Blind.


In 1994, President Clinton announced the appointment of Dr. Schroeder to be 
the Ninth Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) 
in the U.S. Department of Education and in July of 1994 the full U.S. Senate 
confirmed his appointment.

In his capacity as Commissioner of RSA, Dr. Schroeder had responsibility for 
administering a $2.5 billion program that annually provides individualized 
services and supports by highly-skilled rehabilitation counselors to more 
than 1 million eligible Americans with disabilities.

Dr. Schroeder had a very active tenure in RSA and one of his many 
accomplishments during that time was his founding and implementation of the 
National Employment Conference which was directed by him and his staff and 
included productive partnerships with businesses and employers throughout 
the country.

Through Dr. Schroeder's recognition early on of the importance of business 
partnerships, the Employment Conference has endured and prospered to this 
day as a conduit for business and employers to connect with properly-trained 
Americans with disabilities who want careers and to live as independently as 
possible.

Dr. Schroeder serves as an adviser to the National Council of State 
Administrators of the Blind (NCSAB) and is an active member of the National 
Federation of the Blind (NFB).

Dr. Schroeder is also a Research Professor with the Interwork Institute at 
San Diego State University specializing in leadership and public policy.

Dr. Schroeder is an accomplished scholar with over 50 published articles and 
is a nationally and internationally-recognized lecturer on disability 
policy.

Dr. Schroeder and his wife Cathy Nusser Schroeder live just outside of 
Washington, D.C. in Northern Virginia and have two grown children.

On behalf of NRA's 2014 President, Ellen Sokolowski, the 2014 NRA Board of 
Directors and all in the National Rehabilitation Association, it is a 
pleasure and a privilege to welcome Dr. Schroeder as NRA's new Executive 
Director.


Thank you.



Patricia Leahy
Interim Executive Director
Director of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy National Rehabilitation 
Association
patricia at nationalrehab.org <mailto:patricia at nationalrehab.org>
www.nationalrehab.org <http://www.nationalrehab.org/>

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