Gallaudet College Seventh Street and Florida Avenue NE., Washington, D.C. 20002 Phone, 202-651-5000 Chairman, Board of Trustees___. President, Gallaudet College_ Vice President for Academic Affairs_ Vice President for Research___ Vice President for Business Affairs. Vice President for Model Secondary School for the Deaf The Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind was incorporated by act of February 16, 1857 (11 Stat. 161-2; 24 U.S.C. 231, 235). An amendatory act of February 23, 1865 (13 Stat. 436; 24 U.S.C. 231, 249), changed the name to Columbia Institution for the Deaf by act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat. 1422; 24 U.S.C. 231 note). The act approved June 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 265; D.C. Code 31-1001 et seq.), changed its name to Gallaudet College. Gallaudet College was established to provide a liberal higher education for deaf persons who need special facilities to compensate for their loss of hearing. The primary purpose of the college is to afford its students the intellectual and spiritual development that can be acquired through a study of the liberal arts and sciences. The college intends to produce men and women who have the power of sound independent judgment, and who are well informed about the world around them, about their civilization and its achievements, and about themselves as human beings. This purpose is served most strongly through required courses in general education, though it is intended to pervade all the work of the college. In addition to his or her general studies, the student is encouraged to concentrate in a field that is consonant with his interest and that may lead either to a career or to a graduate school. In addition to its undergraduate program, Gallaudet College operates a GEORGE E. MUTH. EDWARD C. Merrill, Jr. PAUL K. Nance. ROBERT R. DAVILA. graduate program at the master's level for preparing teachers and other professional personnel to work with persons who are deaf, a research program which focuses on problems related to deafness, and a preschool for young deaf children. ACCREDITATION Gallaudet College is accredited by the MODEL SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR THE The Model Secondary School for the The MSSD was established as an exemplary educational facility for deaf students of high school age from the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The school is to provide maximum flexibility in curricula and to encourage originality, imagination, and innovation needed to satisfy high levels of aspirations of deaf students. The objectives of the MSSD are to provide day and residential facilities for deaf youths of high school age, in order to prepare some for colleges and other advanced study, and to provide for others terminal education; to pre pare all students to the maximum extent possible to be independent and contributing members of society; and to stimulate the development of similarly excellent programs throughout the Nation. KENDALL DEMONSTRATION The Kendall School for the Deaf, tion's first demonstration elementary school for the deaf by act of December 26, 1970 (84 Stat. 1579), which authorizes Gallaudet College to operate and maintain the school as a model which will experiment in techniques and materials, and to disseminate information from these and future projects to educational facilities for deaf children throughout the country. Approved. 2400 Sixth Street NW., Washington, D.C. 20001 Phone, 202-636-6100 President Howard University was established by act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stat. 438). It is governed by a 27-member self-perpetuating board of trustees. The University maintains a special relationship with the Federal Government through the Department of Education. GEORGE E. MUTH, Chairman, Board of Directors. JAMES E. CHEEK, school of social work, the school of communications, the school of education, the college of nursing, the school of human ecology, the college of allied health sciences, and a summer school. In addition, Howard University has research institutes in the following areas: the arts and the humanities, urban affairs and research, drug abuse and addiction, minority business education, and the study of educational policy. The University admits students of both sexes of every race, creed, color, and national origin, but it accepts and discharges a special responsibility for the admission and training of black students. Howard University, jointly supported by congressional appropriations and private funds, is a comprehensive university organization offering instruction in 17 schools and colleges as follows: the college of liberal arts, the school of engineering, the school of architecture and planning, the school of business and public administration, the college of fine arts, the college of medicine, the college of dentistry, the college of pharmacy and pharmacal science, the school of law, the school of religion, the graduate school, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology Approved. One Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, N.Y. 14623 President of Rochester Institute of Technology. The National Technical Institute for JAMES E. CHEEK, President. M. RICHARD Rose. WILliam E. Castle. through the U.S. Department of Education, it is an integral part of a larger institution known as the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). NTID's presence at RIT is the first effort to educate large numbers of deaf students within a college campus planned primarily for hearing students. Unique in the world, NTID is a vital part of RIT's main 1,300-acre campus in suburban Rochester, N.Y. It provides educational opportunities for qualified students from every State in the Nation and, through educational outreach, publications, and related service, serves deaf persons throughout the world. In addition, NTID conducts research to better understand the role of deafness in education and employment, and to develop innovative teaching techniques. It develops training activities for its faculty and staff, as well as for other professionals working with deaf persons across the country. for One of the major reasons NTID's success in helping deaf students join the mainstream of American life is its close working relationship with other RIT colleges in developing career-oriented programs of study. One of RIT's main strengths over the years has been its ability to adapt its educational programs to technological and social change. NTID helps keep that RIT tradition alive and has served more than 2,600 deaf students since 1968. NTID itself offers a wide range of certificate, diploma, and associate degree programs. Its technical education programs include: business careers, accounting, office practice and procedures, computer careers, business data processing, construction, industrial and engineering courses, architectural technology, civil technology, industrial, industrial drafting and technology, electromechanical technology, manufacturing processes, numerical control, applied health/science careers, medical laboratory and medical record technology, optical finishing career, optical finishing technology, media production careers, media production technologies, photography careers, applied photography, printing careers, printing production technology, art careers, applied art, and social service careers (programs available through cross-registration into RIT College of General Studies). NTID students may also enroll in any of nearly 200 other degree programs offered through RIT's nine other colleges Business, Continuing Education, Engineering, Fine and Applied Arts, General Studies, Graphic Arts and Photography, Science, Institute College, and Eisenhower College. Approximately 25 percent of NTID students attend classes on a regular basis in one of these other RIT colleges, and another 50 percent attend such classes occasionally. Deaf graduates from RIT have found employment throughout the Nation or have moved on to advanced academic studies. Of those who pursued employment, more than 90 percent have been placed in jobs; 93 percent in jobs commensurate with their educational preparation. Of those employed, 80 percent work in business and industry, more than 11 percent in government, and the remainder in education. An applicant for NTID at RIT must be a U.S. resident. An overall eighth grade achievement level or above is required and, except under special circumstances, an applicant must have completed a secondary program. An applicant also must show evidence of need for special services because of hearing loss and have an unaided better ear average of 70dB ISO. References are requested. RIT and NTID are accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. RIT also has been accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional Development: National Association of Schools of Art; Committee on professional Training of American Chemical Society; Council on Social Work Education; and the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences. Approved. M. RICHARD ROSE, President, Rochester Institute of Technology. |