Disability center chooses director
Reprinted with permission of
The Herald Journal
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
M. Bryce Fifield has been named the director of Utah State University's Center for Persons with Disabilities.
He replaces Sarah Rule, who is retiring. Fifield assumes his new job duties Aug. 1.
Fifield is a graduate of Utah State University, where he received his bachelor's degree in psychology and his master's degree in counseling and school psychology. His doctorate in special education and rehabilitation is from the University of Oregon.
Earlier in his career, Fifield was a school psychologist in Shelley, Idaho, a researcher in Arizona and Oregon and an associate director of the Idaho Center on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Idaho.
Most recently he was the executive director of the North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities.
He is also the son of former CPD Director Marvin Fifield and grew up around many of the people who have shaped the CPD.
"There have been a lot of great people that have worked there over the years," Fifield said. "These are folks who I had as friends before I had them as colleagues. Filling their shoes will be a challenge, but we're looking forward to it."
