President of University for the Deaf to Retire
Gallaudet University President I. King Jordan will retire next year, the school for the deaf and hearing impaired announced.
Jordan, the school’s first deaf president, took office in 1988 after students protested the appointment of a hearing president in a week of demonstrations called Deaf President Now.
“The unusual public way in which he was appointed president” made Jordan an “international role model and spokesperson for the deaf community,” Glenn Anderson, chairman of the Board of Trustees, said in a statement.
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