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www.beaumontenterprise.com >> Local - Lamar University receives four-year grant for deaf education
Fearing a deficit in the number of educators for those with special needs, the federal government has awarded four-year grants to schools including Lamar University.
Lamar's portion will be $190,000 a year for four years, according to the U.S. Department of Education news release. The more than $4 million nationwide is for training doctoral, post-doctoral and other graduate students to work with children with disabilities, according to a U.S. Department of Education news release.
"We have a critical shortage" of deaf educators, said Jean F. Andrews, coordinator of Lamar's graduate programs in deaf studies and deaf education. "The statistics are, in the next 10 years, a third of the leadership personnel will retire."
The university will begin to use the money in January, when the current grant expires.
About 65 percent of it will go to students to help with living expenses and tuition, Andrews said. The rest will be spent on faculty salaries and education-related travel expenses, she said.
Fearing a deficit in the number of educators for those with special needs, the federal government has awarded four-year grants to schools including Lamar University.
Lamar's portion will be $190,000 a year for four years, according to the U.S. Department of Education news release. The more than $4 million nationwide is for training doctoral, post-doctoral and other graduate students to work with children with disabilities, according to a U.S. Department of Education news release.
"We have a critical shortage" of deaf educators, said Jean F. Andrews, coordinator of Lamar's graduate programs in deaf studies and deaf education. "The statistics are, in the next 10 years, a third of the leadership personnel will retire."
The university will begin to use the money in January, when the current grant expires.
About 65 percent of it will go to students to help with living expenses and tuition, Andrews said. The rest will be spent on faculty salaries and education-related travel expenses, she said.