Box MSS191.11
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Series 3: Orientation Curriculum, 1980 - 1986
Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
During the early 1980s, Gallaudet’s deaf faculty and staff became dissatisfied with the orientation program used teach new employees how to understand and interact with the deaf. In 1982, the Deafness-Related Concerns Council (DRCC), later known as the President’s Council on Deafness, sent a report to the university president, Dr. Edward C. Merrill. In this report, they laid out their criticisms of the orientation and their ideas for improvement. A new orientation curriculum was devised,...
Dates:
1980 - 1986