October 16, 2007

A Year After Protests, Gallaudet Sees Progress, but Key Dispute Remains

By Paul Basken

One year after student-led protests forced Gallaudet University to rescind a presidential appointment, some measure of calm is returning to the Washington campus of the nation's only liberal-arts university for the deaf.

It's less clear, however, whether that calm will endure.

Gallaudet was visited last week by a team from its accrediting agency, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which in July had placed the university on probation after finding

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