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- Title
Deaf President Now and the Struggle for Deaf Control of Gallaudet University.
- Authors
ARMSTRONG, DAVID F.
- Abstract
Deaf President Now, or DPN, should be viewed as a process, not as a single event. The forces that led to the installation of the first deaf president at Gallaudet were set in motion long before 1988, and they continued to be significant through the protests of 2006. Among the many changes wrought by the 1988 DPN movement is a fundamental shift in the demographics of the Gallaudet workforce, such that the percentage of deaf people among the pool of employees has doubled from 25 percent to 50 percent. This article attempts to put DPN in historical context, and it argues that this shift in the Gallaudet workforce has led to profound changes in the institutional culture.
- Subjects
DEAF people; GALLAUDET University; NATIONAL Association of the Deaf; STUDENT strikes; HUMAN rights; CIVIL rights
- Publication
Sign Language Studies, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0302-1475
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sls.2014.0018