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Federal Support for Gallaudet University

Federal funding for Gallaudet helps promote educational and employment opportunities for persons who are deaf. Gallaudet offers liberal arts programs for baccalaureate and graduate students. It also operates elementary and secondary education programs and conducts research related to deafness.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • Gallaudet failed to meet its goals or show adequate progress in key areas, including the number of students who stay in school, graduate, and either pursue graduate degrees or find jobs upon graduation. For example, its undergraduate graduation rate of 42% has been stagnant and below its annual target levels.
  • The Department of Education has developed a schedule and mechanism for monitoring federally funded programs at Gallaudet. However, it has not fully implemented the plan or conducted site visits to Gallaudet to document its use of funds, assess program data quality, or evaluate the University's compliance with its governing legislation.
  • The Department of Education has not evaluated the federally funded programs at Gallaudet to ensure that they are addressing the needs of their service population, fulfilling their statutory purpose, and achieving results.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working with Gallaudet to add or refine performance measures related to student outcomes and develop strategies to improve outcomes related to staying in school, graduation, and employment.
  • Implementing the agreed upon monitoring plan for the federally funded programs at Gallaudet to document the use of funds, assess program quality, and determine compliance with governing documents.
  • Developing a study to identify barriers to and strategies for improving Gallaudet's performance in the key areas of persistence, graduation, and post-school outcomes.

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