Gallaudet's Enrollment Drops Below 1,000

"In the past five years, undergraduate enrollment has declined from about 1,400 to just under 1,000, said Paul Kelly, the university's vice president for administration and finance. " The italics were added by me, but this sentence is taken directly from today's Washington Post article, "Gallaudet's New Aesthetics," an update on what is happening with the effort to redevelop the Sixth street area bordering Gallaudet. The redevelopment effort is not really news; there have been articles about it before. What is surprising is how low Gallaudet's enrollment has fallen.

This low enrollment is one reason for Gallaudet's interest in redeveloping the area. Gallaudet recognizes that in order to attract more deaf students in a competitive college world, Gallaudet has to become physically more similar to "hearing" colleges. It would be nice to be able to hop on the Metro, and go on a restaurant date in "Gallaudet Town Center," followed by attending whatever event is at Gallaudet that night.