WASHINGTON — The nation’s premier university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students chose a new president Sunday but the school’s choice isn’t likely to stir the same protests that shut down the campus when a new leader was named three years ago.
Gallaudet University announced Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz would become the 10th president of the nearly 150-year-old school. Hurwitz is currently the president of the National Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y.
The new president will head a school of nearly 1,900 students — about 1,100 of them undergraduates. About 90 percent of the undergraduate students are deaf or hard of hearing.
