FY 2008 Annual Report of Achievements - Gallaudet University

3. Gallaudet creates and sustains a climate that fosters respect among students, faculty,
staff, and administrators for the full range of human diversity, educational backgrounds,
ideas, and perspectives.
• Gallaudet recognizes and rewards behaviors that promote and support the free exchange and
critical evaluation of ideas.
• Gallaudet creates, conducts, and assesses a program of educational activities for students,
faculty, teachers, and staff that promote understanding of and respect for the full range of
human diversity.
• Gallaudet’s human resources policies lead to the recruitment, hiring, retention, and promotion of
a workforce that reflects the face of America.
• Gallaudet enhances its position as the cultural heart of the world deaf community.
4. Gallaudet conducts exemplary programs of research, scholarship, and outreach within
the context of its visually oriented learning environment and with respect to its unique
service population.
• Gallaudet leverages its NSF Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual
Learning (VL2) to enhance its position as the leading center for the study of the language
and educational needs of deaf people.
• Gallaudet integrates the educational and outreach responsibilities of the Clerc Center with
the research and outreach programs of the university to maximize the potential of both.
• Gallaudet encourages and rewards independent research and scholarship by its faculty and staff.
5. Gallaudet obtains the financial and other resources necessary to support excellence in its
programs and uses these resources effectively and efficiently.
• Gallaudet preserves and improves its priceless educational, cultural, and historical assets that
are the cornerstones of its educational programs and a treasured repository of materials for
the world-wide deaf community.
• Gallaudet enhances its image with the U.S. Department of Education and Congress and
becomes more responsive to the needs of the public.
• Gallaudet develops staffing plans that are consistent with its enrollment future and its other
public responsibilities.
• Gallaudet assesses its development activities continuously so as to maximize the potential for
private support of its programs, activities, and facilities.
• Gallaudet University is committed to the preservation of its extraordinary legacy of
landscape and architecture while reshaping the campus to build a collegial setting of lively
intellectual and cultural exchange in a visually engaging environment.
7