Guide to the Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Task Force on Policies and Services for Handicapped Students report, 1978

Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-9653
email:digitalcollections@ric.edu

Published in 2025

Collection Overview

Title:	Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Task Force on Policies and Services for Handicapped Students report
Date range:	1978
Creator:	Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Task Force on Policies and Services for Handicapped Students
Extent:	0.01 cubic feet
Abstract:	Interdepartmental memos, comments, proposals, surveys and statistics related to policies, services and facilities for handicapped student accessibility.
Language of materials:	English
Repository:	Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection number:	CA-0089

Scope & content

The collection includes reports, proposals and feedback from various Rhode Island College departments about their efforts, challenges and suggestions to improve the availability of transportation, resources and structural designs to integrate students with disabilities.

Access Points

Subject Names

• Livneh, Hanoch  
• Sherlock, Paul  
• Patrucco, Armand  
• Perrault, Rene  
• Davis, Gail
• Patterson, Michael
• McClelland, Paul
• Dubuc, Emile
• McCool, Dixon
• Nordstrom, Michael
• Bookbinder, Stephen M.

Subject Organizations

• Rhode Island College (1960-) 
• Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Task Force on Policies and Services for Handicapped Students 

Subject Topics

• Transportation 
• Building accessibility 
• Students with disabilities 
• Meetings—Accessibility for people with disabilities
• College students with disabilities

Geographical Names

• Providence, (R.I.)

Document Types

• Handicapped accessibility 
• Interdepartmental memos 
• Statistical reports 
• Student surveys

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the order in which it arrived at Special Collections.

Biographical/Historical Note

A Rhode Island College task force organized in 1978 to address the physical and financial needs of disabled students both on and off campus in compliance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Access & Use

Access to the collection:	The collection is open for research.
Use of the materials:	Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection. Although Rhode Island College has physical ownership of the collection, it does not necessarily hold literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Alternate form:	The collection has not been digitized and is not available online.
Preferred citation:	Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Task Force on Policies and Services for Handicapped Students report, CA-0089, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
Contact information:	Special Collections, James P. Adams Library Rhode Island College 600 Mount Pleasant Ave Providence, RI, 02908 Tel: 401-456-9653 email:digitalcollections@ric.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION
Acquisition:	The collection was in the holdings of Special Collections prior to 2019.
Processing information:	The collection was described by Special Collections intern Justin MacDonald, under the supervision of Veronica L. Denison, Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, in 2025.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID
Author:	Finding aid prepared by Justin MacDonald.
Encoding:	This finding aid was encoded by Veronica L. Denison, 2025
Descriptive rules:	Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Additional Information

Location/Existence of copies:

The collection has not been digitized and is not available online.

Inventory

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