Gallaudet Company Description
Gallaudet University (GU) gives deaf and hard-of-hearing students the chance to be in the majority. The school, which is designed around its hearing impaired students, offers more than 40 majors, granting bachelor, masters, and doctorate degrees to nearly 2,000 students annually. GU admits a small number, about 5% of total enrollment, of hearing freshmen each year. It also runs an elementary and a secondary school for deaf and hard-of-hearing children as part of its Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. The college was founded in 1864 by an act of congress; its charter was signed by Abraham Lincoln. Gallaudet is named for Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who worked to find better methods of teaching the deaf.
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