NTID Appoints Admissions Staff and Advisory Board Member

From: NTID - May 29, 2007

Contact: Pamela Carmichael
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THREE STAFF MEMBERS APPOINTED AT NTID

ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 25—The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, announces three new staff appointments.

Lauren Bain of Rochester has been hired as an admissions counselor and Gail Duell of Churchville has been hired as staff assistant, both in the NTID Office of Admissions. Mark Sommer of Pittsford has been named associate director of Pre-College Outreach.

Bain will do recruitment travel, process applications, and manage the western region of the United States to assist deaf and hard of hearing students in their college search and application process for RIT programs.

She received a Bachelor of Science degree in social work from RIT in 2006. She previously worked as a sociotherapist at Hillside Children’s Center in Rochester, where she also served as a social work intern in 2005.

Duell will manage the department’s database for all high schools and organizational contacts, including the tracking of all recruitment visits in that database. She also will provide general information about the application process and campus visits, and will process application materials.

She formerly was secretary to the managing partner of Faber Homes in Rochester and was assistant to the president of Tapetex, Inc., also in Rochester. She has completed coursework in business, accounting, and computers from RIT and Monroe Community College.

Sommer will manage NTID’s growing outreach programs for high school and secondary audiences, including Explore Your Future, MathCounts, and a digital arts and animation competition. He formerly was associate director of Admissions and Outreach at NTID. Before that, he was director of Outreach and Customer Relations for VISSTA Information Technologies in Massachusetts and Outreach and Education Program Manager for MCI WorldCom in Boston.

He has a master’s degree in educational administration from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from California State University, Northridge.

NTID is the first and largest technological college in the world for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. One of eight colleges of RIT, NTID offers educational programs and access and support services to the 1,100 deaf and hard-of-hearing students from around the world who study, live, and socialize with 14,400 hearing students on RIT’s Rochester, N.Y., campus.

Web address: www.rit.edu/NTID.

For more NTID news, visit http://www.rit.edu/NTID/newsroom.

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Contact: Pamela Carmichael
(585) 475-7976 voice/TTY
plcnmc@rit.edu


DR. ANGEL RAMOS JOINS NTID NATIONAL ADVISORY GROUP

ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 28—Dr. Angel Ramos, superintendent of the Sequoia School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Mesa, Ariz., has joined the National Advisory Group for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology.

The group comprises professionals concerned with education and technical training for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at the postsecondary level and advises NTID administrators on carrying out policies governing the operation of the college.

Ramos is president and executive director of the Angel Ramos Foundation, a non-profit organization that develops and distributes free instructional lessons for deaf and hard-of-hearing children via the Internet; and president and CEO of R&R Publishers, a book publishing company.

Previously, Ramos served as superintendent of the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind and as director of the Hispanic Teacher Program at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He has taught various subjects at the middle school, high school, and college levels in Texas, Washington, and New York. In 1994, he founded the National Hispanic Council of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. He also founded the Spanish Deaf Association of Dallas, Texas, and has been a consultant and board member of dozens of organizations around the country.

Ramos has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Manhattan College, an M.S. in education of the deaf from the State University of New York at Geneseo, a master’s degree in educational administration from California State University, Northridge, and a Ph.D. in special education administration from Gallaudet University.

NTID is the first and largest technological college in the world for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. One of eight colleges of RIT, NTID offers educational programs and access and support services for the 1,100 deaf and hard-of-hearing students from around the world who study, live, and socialize with 14,400 undergraduate hearing students on RIT’s Rochester, N.Y., campus. Web address: www.rit.edu/NTID.

For more NTID news, visit www.rit.edu/NTID/newsroom.

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