National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Update 9/2/2011: Faculty and Staff: Download the Enrollment Targets Committee report. RIT login required.

In spring 2010, NTID completed a community-wide strategic planning process involving students, faculty, staff and alumni, which resulted in creation of Strategic Decisions 2020, a roadmap that will guide NTID in the coming decade.

NTID is now implementing the plan, which includes strategic initiatives involving six areas:

• Students 
• Program and Curriculum Development 
• Communication 
• Access 
• Faculty/Staff 
• Innovation and Scholarship Research  

Students

• Pursuing enrollment targets and admissions and programming strategies:
  • Increasing numbers of graduates achieving baccalaureate degrees and higher
  • Maintaining focus and commitment to quality associate-level degree programs leading directly to the workplace
  • Increasing diversity – AALANA students
  • Improving services to under-prepared students:
    • Working with regional partners to implement intensive summer academic preparation programs in selected high-growth, ethnically diverse areas of the country
  • Expanding NTID's role as a National Resource Center of Excellence in the education of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in high school and at the postsecondary level.
  • Enhancing efforts to become a recognized national leader in the exploration, adaptation, testing and implementation of new technologies to enhance access to, and support of, learning by deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.

Program and Curriculum Development

• Review and update NTID career-focused program portfolio
• Expand 2+2/2+3 degree programs
• Investigate development of deafness-related bachelor's degrees with other RIT colleges
• Coordination among technical general education and co-curriculum programs
  • International
  • Community service
  • Soft skills
  • Deaf studies/ASL requirement
• Expand graduate degrees

Communication

• Educational use of languages in support of graduation requirements
• Orientation to RIT Deaf community and opportunity to learn ASL
• Commitment to continuous learning
• Signing in public spaces by faculty and staff
• Flexibility in direct instruction
• Communication expectations for faculty and staff
• Civil discourse
• Communicating with external publics

Access

• Principles for access services
• Promote technology in support of access and learning

Faculty/Staff

• Professional development

Innovation and Scholarship Research

• Center for NTID research
• Undergraduate and graduate scholarship and innovation
• Sebastian and Lenore Rosica Hall
  • Two-story, 23,000 square foot facility
  • Dedicated to innovation and research at the associate degree level
  • Groundbreaking spring 2012
  • Opening 2013