California State University

San Fernando Valley Business Journal, May 26, 2008

Elyse Chaplin has been named the new director of the California State University Northridge internationally-recognized Center on Disabilities. Chaplin is the former director of Disability Support Services and assistant dean of Student Life at Brown University, who has been working on her doctorate in higher educational theory and policy studies--with an emphasis on serving students with disabilities at the postsecondary level--at the University of Toronto, will assume her new post mid-July.

CSUN's Center on Disabilities garners international attention each year with its annual Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference. The conference draws thousands of people from around the world--academics, people with disabilities and some of the world's leading technology entrepreneurs--all interested in exploring ways technology can make life easier for persons with disabilities.