Students and faculty in the MSU Deaf Education Program, as well as members of the deaf community, will gather outside the Administration Building at 10 a.m. today in protest to a recommended moratorium on the program’s admission of students.
The recommendation, along with a proposal to discontinue all American Sign Language classes, will be sent to Academic Governance for input, according to a message sent to students enrolled in ASL courses or the teaching program obtained by The State News.
According to the messages sent by Susan Dalebout, the College of Education’s academic student affairs director and certification officer, students currently enrolled in the program and those who are admitted in the spring will be allowed to complete their program and be recommended for certification if finished by summer 2013.
Students who submitted an application this fall will be considered for admission, but would need to take part in an accelerated program to complete a modified course in order to meet all certification requirements, according to the
messages.
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