Welcome! 

Welcome to the 2024-2025 academic year at both Gallaudet University and Clerc Center! This fall promises to be an exciting semester. Here are some of the highlights. 

Gallaudet has nine new faculty members, including Dr. Joseph Hill, G-’04 & PhD ’11, director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies, and Dr. Carla Garcia-Fernandez, director of the Center for Latine Deaf Studies (Nuestra Casa). Members of the university community will be able to meet them at the centers’ open houses next week.  

Clerc Center also welcomes Stephen Farias, ’05, as its new superintendent. 

Women’s triathlon made its debut last weekend as one of three new athletics offerings this year.  

The Center for Democracy in Deaf America (CDDA) has mounted a voter registration drive on campus and will hold several on-campus events related to the 2024 election. CDDA executive director Brendan Stern, ’05, also is presenting at several Gallaudet University Alumni Association chapter events. 

The National Deaf Life Museum will unveil a new exhibition, “We, Native Deaf People, Are Still Here!” on October 17, and there will be a healing and renaming ceremony for Building 103 the same day.  

Homecoming is October 16-19.  

Again, welcome!