CargoAdmin, Bureaucrats, Moderators (CommentStreams), fileuploaders, Interface administrators, newuser, Push subscription managers, Suppressors, Administrators
14,662
edits
National Technical Institute for the Deaf: Difference between revisions
National Technical Institute for the Deaf (view source)
Revision as of 23:39, 21 December 2024
, 21 December 2024Text replacement - "The New York Times" to "The New York Times"
m (1 revision imported) |
m (Text replacement - "The New York Times" to "The New York Times") |
||
| Line 67: | Line 67: | ||
*RIT had a trustee, Edmund Lyon, who had served as president of the [[Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing]] and as trustee of the [[Rochester School for the Deaf]]. | *RIT had a trustee, Edmund Lyon, who had served as president of the [[Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing]] and as trustee of the [[Rochester School for the Deaf]]. | ||
The institute was originally conceived as tuition-free, providing technical training as well as academic and communication skills training to 600 deaf students annually.<ref>{{Citation | title=ROCHESTER TO GET U.S. DEAF COLLEGE | newspaper= | The institute was originally conceived as tuition-free, providing technical training as well as academic and communication skills training to 600 deaf students annually.<ref>{{Citation | title=ROCHESTER TO GET U.S. DEAF COLLEGE | newspaper=The New York Times | date=November 15, 1966 | page=22}}</ref> | ||
NTID admitted its first students in 1968.<ref>{{Citation | last = Marschark | first = Marc | last2 = Lang | first2 = Harry G. | year = 2002 | title = Educating Deaf Students: From Research to Practice | location = [[New York, New York]] | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | page = 35 | isbn = 978-0-19-512139-1 | oclc = 45668968}}</ref> Its establishment initially caused a great deal of friction on campus between hearing students and deaf students and RIT faculty and NTID faculty, the points of contention centering on the construction of new buildings for NTID, whether or not NTID faculty salaries were more generous than those of their peers, and communication differences between [[American Sign Language]] and [[American English]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Gordon | first = Dane R. | date = 2007 | title = Rochester Institute of Technology: Industrial Development and Educational Innovation in an American City, 1829–2006 | edition = 1 | location = [[Henrietta, New York]] | publisher = RIT Press | page = 295 | isbn = 978-1-933360-24-9 | oclc = 80360669}}</ref> | NTID admitted its first students in 1968.<ref>{{Citation | last = Marschark | first = Marc | last2 = Lang | first2 = Harry G. | year = 2002 | title = Educating Deaf Students: From Research to Practice | location = [[New York, New York]] | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | page = 35 | isbn = 978-0-19-512139-1 | oclc = 45668968}}</ref> Its establishment initially caused a great deal of friction on campus between hearing students and deaf students and RIT faculty and NTID faculty, the points of contention centering on the construction of new buildings for NTID, whether or not NTID faculty salaries were more generous than those of their peers, and communication differences between [[American Sign Language]] and [[American English]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Gordon | first = Dane R. | date = 2007 | title = Rochester Institute of Technology: Industrial Development and Educational Innovation in an American City, 1829–2006 | edition = 1 | location = [[Henrietta, New York]] | publisher = RIT Press | page = 295 | isbn = 978-1-933360-24-9 | oclc = 80360669}}</ref> | ||