[Nfbk] Fwd: National Rehabilitation Association (NRA) Announces New Executive Director

Wed Apr 16 14:03:13 UTC 2014

Wow!  This is awesome!!

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Subject: FW: 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 
 <mailto:patricia at nationalrehab.org> patricia at nationalrehab.org  
 <http://www.nationalrehab.org/> www.nationalrehab.org  

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Fredric K. Schroeder

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