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Thanks!!! I guess the SBE has revised the resolution though when I read through it I couldn't see much that was different.. I think they are just telling MSU that if they stop the program then they will have to work with the State Board of Ed to come up with ways to ensure proper preparation of...

We had a pretty good turnout on Friday but are still working on fighting the decision. We are attending a Board of Trustees meeting this Friday to talk to the administration, and the Michigan Dept. of Education has put out a memo/resolution to urge MSU to reconsider closing this program - so we...

Thanks!!! We had a pretty good turnout - couple hundred probably. A good amount of media too, couple news cameras, and newspapers. Hopefully this will help get the momentum moving. I've enclosed a letter that many of the speakers touched on. Its from Dean Ames of the College of Ed here at...

Just a reminder that the rally to protest the closing of the program is this Friday! It sounds like we're going to have a good turnout so if you're in the area feel free to stop by and show your support!

Thanks! We are really starting to gain momentum I think. Our facebook group itself has just hit the 2500 member mark. NAD has been posting and twittering about it as well. Someone told me that Marlee Matlin twittered something about it as well but I'm not sure. We were told that MSU...

I just wanted to send out another reminder that there will be a rally at MSU to protest the decision to close the Deaf Ed and ASL programs here. It will be at 10:00 in front of the Hannah Administration Building on campus and so far we have over 650 people confirmed for attending. There will...

Thanks :)

Thanks! I am having a great time exploring all of the forums and posts :) Looking forward to participating some more

Thanks for the welcome :) Yeah thats one of the reasons we're having the rally... We want answers. It just doesn't make sense. I mean I understand we are one of numerous programs being cut, but we just want to know how and why they came about deciding to close our programs. Guess we'll just...

http://www.alldeaf.com/deaf-education/72198-michigan-state-university-deaf-education-program-closing.html That's a link to the other thread as well in the Deaf Education section, I forgot to post that earlier

Hope this helps :) Letter from Dr. Pagliaro

In our program, as far as I can tell enrollment has held steady if it hasn't increased. In the Intro to Deaf Ed class there are 19 students this semester. Two years ago I think there were around 10, so interest in the program hasn't decreased to say the least. I think the cut has something...

Dr. Pagliaro and Dr. Johnson are the heads of the Deaf Ed program here, I have Dr. Pagliaro for two classes right now. The university has cut other programs (Natural Science, Geography, and Communication Sciences and Disorders as well as a few others I think) so we are by no means a unique...

As Glenn said, what we have been told the reason for the cut is financial. But there are still a lot of questions to be answered because while they are cutting the ASL program which typically has very good enrollment, they are keeping other programs will lower class sizes. In terms of Deaf...

The email we received stated finances. I'm not exactly sure though as it was pretty vague and the department has been steadily growing over the past few years. The thing we are surprised about is that while they are closing the ASL program, which is the third most used language in the US, they...