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A new and promising partnership that aims to promote opportunities for an improved quality of life for deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind people in Ethiopia was launched on December 18, 2023 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Gallaudet University and the Republic of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Women and Social Affairs (MoWSA). This landmark partnership expands Gallaudet’s global efforts to enhance education, training, and official recognition of sign language in Africa’s two most populous countries – Nigeria and Ethiopia, respectively.

On December 21, 2023, a student at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic shot and killed 14 people and injured 25. The gunman also died, and was subsequently implicated in several other shootings days earlier.  This was by far the worst mass shooting in the...

Gallaudet participated in GivingTuesday, the annual global day of giving, on November 28, 2023 and more than $22,000 was raised for the University. More than half of the donations went to the Necessity of Now (NOW) campaign. NOW will fund the creation of an equitable...