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A Florida-based charity that provides educational opportunities to the disadvantaged or disabled has donated $600,000 for deaf and hard-of-hearing Rochester Institute of Technology students eager to become entrepreneurs. The endowed scholarship will be matched, bringing the scholarship base to $1.2 million, with a community challenge that could allow the base to swell to $1.6 million.

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Rochester, N.Y. December 13, 2007 — Deaf or hard-of-hearing college graduates with a bachelor’s degree are invited to apply to the Professional Fellowship Program at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a college of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). This program offers a master’s degree in a professional or technical field — for free. Fellowship recipients receive a full tuition waiver, free housing in a single occupancy on-campus apartment, and a $15,000 annual stipend as compensation for a career-related, part-time job.

Deaf and hard-of-hearing graduate students who apply must be United States citizens and be accepted into a two- to three-year master’s degree program at RIT to be eligible for this fellowship. An application and other required materials are due to the Professional Fellowship Program selection committee by March 31, 2008 for admission the following fall.

For more information or application materials, visit www.rit.edu/NTID/PFPNR.

The first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf and hard of hearing, NTID, one of eight colleges of RIT, offers educational programs and access and support services to 1,100 students from around the world who study, live, and socialize along with more than 14,000 hearing students on the RIT campus. Web address: www.rit.edu/NTID.

E. Scouten

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is accepting applications from teachers of the deaf for a one-week endowed internship in English literacy.

This internship was established to honor the memory of professor emeritus Edward L. Scouten, who was a faculty member in the NTID English Department from 1970 until his retirement in 1985.

The intern will study and work with NTID faculty members to learn about promoting the English literacy skills needed for deaf and hard-of-hearing students to be successful in college.

Interns will receive a stipend of $1,500. To qualify, applicants must be primarily teaching deaf students English Language Arts at the high school or middle school level and have two to five years of teaching experience.

The successful candidate for this internship will select one week in either February, March, April, or May during RIT’s winter or spring quarters. Applications are accepted year round and the selected applicant is informed by Jan. 31st each year.

For more details, see: www.rit.edu/NTID/scouten or contact Kathleen Eilers-crandall at kecncp@rit.edu.

Performers from Rochester Institute of Technology and its National Technical Institute for the Deaf are hitting the road in January to perform at QuestFest, a two-week international visual theater festival at Towson University, just north of Baltimore, Md.

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