Office of the President

Paving the way for Gallaudet’s future

The Office of the President prioritizes transformation, collaboration, diversity, equity, and innovation within the university to advance our students’ dreams and aspirations.

Through these strategic priorities, we establish an environment where faculty and staff become leaders in academia and students flourish in their studies and research. Altogether, our GU community functions as leaders for the deaf and hard of hearing communities worldwide.

We value:

Transformative leadership: Understanding our global reach in leadership and innovation, we own our responsibility to represent self-determination and empowerment for deaf and hard of hearing people everywhere.
Inclusive Excellence: We are building an equitable, empathetic, and inclusive institution through the advancement of diverse thoughts, values, histories, policies, and practices.
Exceptional Teamwork: The joint effort of colleagues within our office, across divisions, and externally speak to our dedicated work in the service of advancing the University.

People ask, what is Gallaudet’s secret sauce? How have you been so successful? How have you been able to achieve so many of the things you set out to do?

I have a few thoughts to share with you. I’m certain you can add to them. But firstly – it is our people. It is YOU. You are our secret sauce.

Secondly, you carry and embody Deaf Gain. As I often explain to people: I grew up Deaf. What that means is as Deaf people, every day, we have to adapt to situations that we encounter – we must analyze and strategize how to access communication.

We are constantly adapting and managing situations every day, all day – with our families, our communities, at the grocery store or the theater, in the workplace, in school, in our broader world, in our travels – we are always adapting. That is one of our greatest gains.

Deaf Gain gives us a creative edge. We are experts at problem-solving. We use our visual language, our visual way of being, to be successful every day.

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Meet the Executive Team

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Belonging & Equity in Action Summit

News

March 7, 2024

Gallaudet University Statement on Hillel Event and Protest

January 11, 2024

Alumna, employee Yiqiao Wang creates mural for Union Market

November 17, 2023

President Cordano joins former Howard president for discussion of intersectionality

September 20, 2023

FCC holds public listening session on broadband access

March 29, 2023

Dr. Khadijat K. Rashid, ’90, appointed Provost

March 29, 2023

Dr. Laurene Simms appointed as Chief Bilingual Officer

March 1, 2023

Gallaudet joins other area universities in The 120 Initiative for gun violence reduction

September 30, 2022

President Cordano writes articles on inclusive excellence, sign language economy

September 23, 2022

How Sign Language is Driving a Multi-Billion Dollar Inclusive Economy

August 19, 2022

President Cordano, other university presidents meet with U.S. Vice President Harris

Shared Governance

Governance bodies and committees work to take the institution to the next level. These dedicated groups serve a wide range of functions and are composed of members from the faculty, staff, and student communities. Whether they serve in long-term advisory roles or as short-term task...