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R .I .T Rochester Institute of Technology<br />
December 31, 2009<br />
The Honorable Arne Duncan<br />
Secretary of Education<br />
U.S. Department of Education<br />
400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.<br />
Washington, DC 20202<br />
Dear Secretary Duncan:<br />
Office of the President<br />
George Eastman Building<br />
2 Lomb Memorial Drive<br />
Rochester, New York 14623-5604<br />
585-475-2394 Fax 585-475-5700<br />
Annual Report 2009 fulfills the requirement of the Education of the Deaf Act that the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Technical</strong><br />
Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT/NTID) ―… shall prepare and<br />
submit an annual report to the Secretary…‖<br />
We are delighted to provide this report, our 43rd, for it presents a summary of activities undertaken at<br />
RIT/NTID during Fiscal Year 2009.<br />
Again this year NTID has seen an increase in our enrollment, now to 1,474 students, and for the second<br />
year in a row we are at the largest enrollment in our history. This means we are extending the impact of<br />
our educational process to even more students’ lives. As you review this document, you will discover our<br />
impact reflected again and again in the statistics we report on enrollment, persistence, graduation rate<br />
and placement rate. These numbers for us are the accumulation of our impact on the life of one student<br />
after another. The numbers for us are placeholders, because each number incorporates the individuals<br />
we educate and support one by-one.<br />
The support you and so many others in the federal government provide is, of course, central to our<br />
success, and we are delighted to acknowledge the centrality of that support to the work we do, guided by<br />
our mission established many years ago:<br />
To provide deaf and hard-of-hearing students with outstanding state-of-the-art technical<br />
and professional education programs, complemented by a strong liberal arts and sciences<br />
curriculum, that prepare them to live and work in the mainstream of a rapidly changing<br />
global community and enhance their lifelong learning.<br />
This report is also available in full to the general public at:<br />
www.ntid.rit.edu/media/annual_report2009.pdf<br />
You have the thanks of everyone associated with RIT/NTID – students, faculty, staff and friends – for the<br />
support you demonstrate for our programs.<br />
With warm regards,<br />
Dr. William Destler, PhD Dr. James J. DeCaro<br />
President, RIT Professor & Dean Emeritus<br />
Interim President, NTID<br />
Interim Vice President and Dean, RIT
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