30 Years After Gallaudet Students Demanded a Deaf President, It’s a ‘Typical University’

Today Gallaudet University (DC) thinks of itself as an institution of higher learning that happens to have deaf students. That’s a big change from 30 years ago, when the student body erupted in protest, demanding that the school in Northeast D.C. hire its first deaf president, according to one of the protest organizers.  Fred Weiner was a recent Gallaudet graduate when he helped launch the ‘Deaf President Now’ movement at the school in 1988.