Students Shut Down University for the Deaf, Force Newly Named President to Resign.

DeLoughry, Thomas J.

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Publication Date: 1988

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Students Shut Down University for the Deaf, Force Newly Named President to Resign.

DeLoughry, Thomas J.

Chronicle of Higher Education, v34 n27 pA1,18 Mar 16 1988

The appointment of a hearing person as president of Gallaudet University, the nation's only university for the deaf, triggered bitter student protests that closed the campus and raised issues of oppression of the deaf community. (MSE)

Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Selection, College Presidents, College Students, Deafness, Governance, Governing Boards, Higher Education, School Boycotts, Trustees, Universities

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