National Technical Institute for the Deaf

National Technical Institute for the Deaf
TypePrivate-Public partnership
Established1965
PresidentGerard Buckley
Location
Henrietta, New York

43°05′14″N 77°40′06″W / 43.0871°N 77.6683°W / 43.0871; -77.6683
Websiterit.edu/ntid

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.[1] As one of nine colleges within the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York, NTID provides academic programs, access, ASL in-class interpreters and support services—including on-site audiological, speech-language, and cochlear implant support. As of fall quarter 2012, NTID encompasses just under 10% of RIT's enrollment, 1259 students. Roughly 775 deaf and hard of hearing students are cross-registered into another RIT college's program with support from NTID.

In addition to a master's degree in deaf education, NTID also offers a bachelor's degree program in ASL-English Interpretation.

History

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The institute was established in 1965 by the passage of Pub. L. 89–36.[2] The law also established a National Advisory Group to find a suitable site for the school. The Advisory Group considered proposals from Illinois State University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Southern California, the State University of New York, the University of Colorado at Boulder and others before deciding on RIT as its home in 1966.[3] Three factors helped RIT secure the responsibility for the new institute:

The institute was originally conceived as tuition-free, providing technical training as well as academic and communication skills training to 600 deaf students annually.[4]

NTID admitted its first students in 1968.[5] 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.[6]

In the early 1980s, NTID's enrollment spiked as deaf students from the "rubella bulge" of the mid-1960s entered their college years.[7] Enrollment has been trending higher again in recent years; NTID's 2008 enrollment was its highest ever at 1,450, easily surpassing the previous record of 1,358 set in 1984.[8]

In 1993, NTID established its Center for Arts and Sciences to help boost the numbers of undecided (or underprepared) students who stay on to pursue a baccalaureate degree.[9] By 2005, this program had raised the proportion of NTID students in bachelor's degree programs to 41% (from 12% twenty years earlier).[10]

The history of NTID and the art, culture, technology, and language of the Deaf community are preserved in the RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive, which is housed on campus in the RIT Archive Collections in Wallace Library.[11]

Institute leaders
Name Title Tenure
D. Robert Frisina Director
Senior Vice President 		1967–1968
1977–1979
William E. Castle Director
Vice President 		1968–1982
1979–1994
Peter Pere Dean 1982–1984
James J. DeCaro Dean

Interim president

1984–1998

1995-1996

Robert R. Davila Vice President 1996–2006
T. Alan Hurwitz Dean
President 		1998 – December 31, 2009
2006 – December 31, 2009
James J. DeCaro Interim president January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010
Gerard J. Buckley President January 1, 2011 – present

Notable alumni

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "NTID at a Glance". Rochester Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  2. ^ "National Technical Institute for the Deaf", United States Code, Chapter, vol. 20A, Washington, D.C.: Office of the Law Revision Counsel, archived from the original on 2013-01-15, retrieved 2008-12-08
  3. ^ Gordon, Dane R. (2007), Rochester Institute of Technology: Industrial Development and Educational Innovation in an American City, 1829–2006 (1 ed.), Henrietta, New York: RIT Press, p. 235, ISBN 978-1-933360-24-9, OCLC 80360669
  4. ^ "ROCHESTER TO GET U.S. DEAF COLLEGE", The New York Times, p. 22, November 15, 1966
  5. ^ Marschark, Marc; Lang, Harry G. (2002), Educating Deaf Students: From Research to Practice, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 35, ISBN 978-0-19-512139-1, OCLC 45668968
  6. ^ Gordon, Dane R. (2007), Rochester Institute of Technology: Industrial Development and Educational Innovation in an American City, 1829–2006 (1 ed.), Henrietta, New York: RIT Press, p. 295, ISBN 978-1-933360-24-9, OCLC 80360669
  7. ^ Gordon, Dane R. (2007), Rochester Institute of Technology: Industrial Development and Educational Innovation in an American City, 1829–2006 (1 ed.), Henrietta, New York: RIT Press, p. 297, ISBN 978-1-933360-24-9, OCLC 80360669
  8. ^ "NTID Sets Enrollment Record", NTID News, Rochester, N.Y.: National Technical Institute for the Deaf, retrieved 2009-04-11
  9. ^ Gordon, Dane R. (2007), Rochester Institute of Technology: Industrial Development and Educational Innovation in an American City, 1829–2006 (1 ed.), Henrietta, New York: RIT Press, p. 475, ISBN 978-1-933360-24-9, OCLC 80360669
  10. ^ Gordon, Dane R. (2007), Rochester Institute of Technology: Industrial Development and Educational Innovation in an American City, 1829–2006 (1 ed.), Henrietta, New York: RIT Press, p. 513, ISBN 978-1-933360-24-9, OCLC 80360669
  11. ^ "RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive | RIT Archive Collections". library.rit.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-26.

Further reading

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McCarthy, James K. (2018). A shining beacon : fifty years of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Rochester, New York: RIT Press. ISBN 9781939125491. OCLC 1019854198.

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