M. Bryce Fifield
Reprinted with permission of
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services Magazine, Fall 2008
New Director of CPD M. Bryce Fifield has been named director of the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD), replacing Sarah Rule, who has recently retired. Rule said Fifield has come to the CPD and "hit the ground running."
Fifield is a graduate of the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, 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.
Fifield has had an eventful and diverse career. He 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, located at Minot State University. He has served as chair of the North Dakota State Council on Developmental Disabilities and as a board member and treasurer of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.
He is the son of former CPD Director Marvin Fifield and grew up "rubbing elbows" with many of the people who shaped the CPD into what it is today. "A lot of great people have worked here over the years," Fifield said. "These are folks who were friends before they were colleagues. Filling their shoes will be a challenge, but I'm looking forward to it. I am thrilled to come back to Utah State."
