Gallaudet University

I was very happy with the online education I received. I feel I see the world differently and understand deaf culture and sign language on a much deeper level. I am proud to have Gallaudet University on my resume. Education wise with the online school, I was very happy with my classes and instructors. They were very supportive and enriching.
The areas I would like to warn you about are more administrative things. My counselor changed almost every semester, and I did not even know who my new counselor was. I had to be very proactive about registering for classes and my degree requirement myself. I did get Thelma Schroeder for my last year, and she was absolutely wonderful. I had to be very proactive and on top of my own financial aid. If there was a problem or something missing, I did not get an email or letter about it. The financial aid office had alot of turnover as well. Being an online student, I heavily depended on email to get answers to questions. My emails often took a week or more to be answered, and it was hard to get things resolved. (For example, I reached my borrowing maximum, yet was never told that. I only found out the next semester when I could not enroll for classes). I felt the online students were often overlooked for administrative type things, which made for a tough few years.

I would caution anyone to take an online American Sign Language class via Gallaudet University. I am familiar with Gallaudet’s history and am sure the experience on campus is more worthwhile than what is provided online.
The technical services the course employs are always down. The professor does not respond to emails for days on end. I found out 2 days after completing an online quiz because she was not satisfied with the program used to record. Not sure why if it was such an issue that it took her 2 days to respond. But in all honestly, that is quicker than the rest of her responses. When I asked for help in finding a new partner for a midterm exam a week in advance, after 5 emails for 4 days, I am still waiting for a response. I asked for a change in partners because my current partner is not invested in the class and is not able to submit things on time – causing my grade to suffer. This class is done mostly in online partnerships, so it was very lucky if you can get someone who is interested in actually doing the work in and not on time. However, its not that suprising when your professor doesn’t care about her students and respond to emails.
Don’t waste your time or your money (there is not type of compensation). When I emailed the department head hoping for some type of solution (like my professor sending me back an email) — I also did not get a response. Not professional or collegiate. This has been a miserable experience. I highly highly caution anyone in enrolling in the ASL I onlien course with Professor Robin Massey. It has been a nightmare and she is a terrible professor.

I seem to end up here at a conference once a year or so and am always delighted to visit this lovely campus. The Kellogg Conf center and the I King Jordan student center are the two places I end up in and find to be very amenable. Parking can be tight if the students are back on campus so take one of the 90 buses (90, 91, 92,93) that all go along Florida ave and stop at the front gate. Or there’s a shuttle from Union Station. There’s signs all over the campus for directions if you don’t know ASL and can’t ask someone going by.

Great school to work at (you must know sign language) but also a great place to have a small conference or event in which you make want to showcase something… Parking is easy and the food service and quality is good!

i give 4 stars only so it always can get better!
i visited last august.
now i was accepted for this fall!
i am so excited to learn ASL fluently, and make friends from all around the world.
also, it was signed into existence by our great President Abe Lincoln.
one day i hope to do great things to help all hoh and deaf around the world, and it will begin with my first step in a classroom August 21^st, 2012.
if you are deaf, or hard of hearing, you need to visit.
if you are wanting to be an interpreter for Deaf, you are not really one unless you visit… because you never will truly understand Deaf until you do.

Oh Gallaudet!
G A L L A U D E T !
The world’s only liberal arts university for the Deaf. An amazing experience and definitely a culture shock.
It was incredible seeing your computer lab being fulled by people who have their hands in the air so that the other people could see the sign language via webcam.
It was incredible going to a packed cafeteria and realize that it is definitely quiet unless if there’s a group of «hearing» people around that don’t know how to sign.
It was incredible seeing the green fireflies populate the grassy areas of the campus in a summer evening.
There’s a great GLI program — Gallaudet Leadership Institute. It teaches and empowers individuals to make positive changes in our society by means of advocacy.
The graduate program are good here whereas the undergraduate programs may have a long way to go before it could be recognized by US World News and Report ranking, but I believe it will get there sometime soon, simply because this university has so much of a heart. And the heart is shared among the deaf from all over the world.
Yes… Gallaudet!