The President Of The Columbia Institution

Jane Fernandes’s appointment as President Gallaudet University, leaving the auditorium with plans of protest. For the second time in Gallaudet’s history, students march their way to the front gates, refusing to leave. Students rallied, inducing the resignation of Celia May Baldwin. These events were 11 years ago, showing that Deaf people still feel oppressed. What happened at Gallaudet rippled across the globe, causing an uprising in Mississippi School for the Deaf. Though there are many improvements in America, we all still have a very long way to go for advocacy of both deaf and disabled

Of all the candidates who were up for the presidency of the university, only one of them was not deaf. This fact only fueled the fire when candidate was chosen. More or less sending a message into the deaf community that deaf people still seemed to be less capable or qualified as a hearing person. Yet, although DPN was a movement for equality and many other issues, it was a milestone in the Deaf Culture. "Deaf President Now" showed the world that deaf people and the deaf world could be united around a common issues and "fight." Especially one of this importance. "Gallaudet University represents the pinnacle of education for deaf people, not only in the United States but throughout the world." (Van Cleve p.172) Would it not be fitting for a university founded within deaf culture, be headed by one who was a part of that culture? Obviously there is no question.

Together, Clerc and Gallaudet founded the first deaf school in the United States, what is now known as the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. The school opened on April 15, 1817 with Gallaudet serving as the principal and Clerc as the head teacher. Aside from teaching the students, Clerc was responsible to training the future teachers and administrators of the School. He was sent to other schools throughout the United States to continue to teach his methods to both students and prospective teachers, and his influence on teaching the deaf spread widely throughout the United States.

The non-deaf Gallaudet president Elizabeth Zinser was very hated by students, staff and most everyone. Elizabeth being hearing wasn't the only reason she was hated, she was hated for many reasons being hearing was one and not being able to sign was another. She made decisions for a school that had a whole different culture than she did and that she didn't understand because she wasn't a part of the deaf-signing people that went to school that she was overlooking. When she was named president in March 1988, this sparked a protest by many students, alumni, faculty, and staff who felt that although she was a qualified administrator, she didn't have the knowledge and skills necessary to lead Gallaudet University. Unhappy with the decision of her being named the president of Gallaudet, Gallaudet students, backed by a number of alumni, staff,

He realized that his younger siblings would not play with her because she was “different”. Gallaudet wanted to communicate with her. He wrote the word “hat” in the dirt, in hopes she would understand, and she did. He was determined to find a better way to communicate with her because writing in the dirt was not most efficient. He met with Alice’s father, Dr. Mason Cogswell, who offered to pay Gallaudet’s travel expenses to Europe in hope that he could learn a way to communicate with Alice while he was there. While in Europe, he first lived with the Braidwood family, who owned several deaf schools. Their style of teaching was known as the oral way. The oral way of teaching is to teach the deaf students to speak and read lips, but Gallaudet did not like that style. He then met Abbe Sicard, who was the director of The Institute Royal Des Sourds-Mutes in Paris, France. He signed up to attend this school and found he loved their way of teaching, which was the way of sign language. Unfortunately, after a year, he realized he did not have enough money to attend any longer. He asked one of the students, Laurent Clerc, to join him on the journey back to the United States, and Clerc agreed. Over time, Clerc taught Gallaudet, further, how to sign, and Gallaudet taught Clerc, further, how to speak English. In April of 1817, the first school for the deaf was opened by Gallaudet and

Dr. Laurene Elizabeth gallimore is her full name, she was born on July 30 1985.she grew up in Columbia. She went to Indiana school for the death for high school. Her deaf education started at western Maryland college he started going there in 1986s she became a professor in the 2000s. she graduated from Indiana school for the deaf. she became a professor at the education department at Gallaudet university, which is located in Washington D.C. she got many degrees. In fact, Dr. laurene gallimore was actually the second African American woman that is deaf to earn a doctoral degree from going to collage at Gallaudet university one of the the only deaf schools back in the day but now there are many other universities’

The board wanted a hearing president because that is who they thought would do a better job and they assumed that a deaf president couldn't fulfill certain roles. On the other hand, the students demanded that there be a deaf president to represent the college to its fullest potential. It is known that a deaf person can do everything a hearing person can besides hear((University 1988). The reason the students protested is because the deaf candidate was best suited for the position. The assumptions the board of trustees made were not very accurate and fair compared to the rest of the community. It was surprising to see that the board members were not supportive for the deaf community since they are associated as top leaders of the

"Deaf Awareness," "Deaf Power," and "Deaf Pride" were now slogans often emblazoned on the shirts of the students at Gallaudet.

The technique that Clerc taught was by the use of his hands, which he communicated with French sign language, blended with a bit of signs used by students in the United States. To Gallaudet the language was a inspiration which he called it, “Highly poetical,” but to Clerc and many of the deaf people, the using of sign was natural and useful. This was a result of a created acculturated nonverbal language known as American Sign Language (ASL). As new schools for the deaf spread west and south, American sign language also evolved as well in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois. By the year of 1864, Abraham Lincoln signed a law constituting the first college in the world for deaf students called Gallaudet University and all these schools used sign as a curriculum.

A movement had happened at a Deaf college, known as the Deaf President Now movement. This happened at Gallaudet which is the first Deaf school in the U.S. named after Thomas Gallaudet. For over 124 years Gallaudet has had a hearing president to represent the school, on March 6, 1988 that all changed. A angry mob of Deaf college students had have enough and a protest against the College for electing a hearing president began. The Deaf students of Gallaudet had had enough and started a protest leading to a movement. Finally, it seemed, the world’s only liberal arts college for the Deaf would have a Deaf president.

Putting yourself in the shoes of the managers or engineers in the case (Ron Dittemore, Linda Ham, Don McCormack, Rodney Rocha, Pamela Madera, Calvin Schomburg), consider the following questions?

Joseph Henry Johnson, a young medical doctor, was inspired by his younger deaf brother to establish the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind in 1858. The Johnson family remained involved with the school for years to come. For instance, Joseph Henry Johnson was the school’s first president, his sister was the first teacher, and his son, Joseph Henry Johnson Jr., succeeded him as president. Johnson’s brother-in-law, Reuben R. Asbury was visually impaired during the Civil War, and founded the Alabama School for

In 1880 there was an international conference of deaf educators. There were 164 members (142 of which were either British or Italian) representing eight different countries and were champions of both oral and manual methods. On one side was Alexander Graham Bell and his colleagues from around Europe supporting the oral methods and on the other side was Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

According to an online journal by Carla A. Halpern, in 1817, a Connecticut clergyman named Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, opened the first permanent school for the deaf in Hartford (Halpern, C., 1996). This deaf school was for American children which only had seven students and a head teacher by the name of Laurent Clerc. Clec was from the Paris Institution for the Deaf and had been deaf since infancy. He bought to the United States a nonverbal form of communication known as French sign language (Halpern, C., 1996).

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