How to Take Over Gallaudet University - the right way
I wrote this to a question by somebody in DeafDC wanting to know how many people would it take to take over (ie "buy") Gallaudet University and make it into a private Deaf university. Here is my assessment.
The cost seen in the FY07 annual budget is $155,000,000 to run and operate the university.
There are over 14,000 Gallaudet alumni.
So, you will need from each alumna over $11,000 each, every year. for as long as the person is breathing. Or at least have a fund raising event to raise $155,000,000 EVERY YEAR to ensure that Gallaudet continues to run and function as it were. Not even considering that this price will continue to go up every year.
But it’s not just the alumni but families who are DoD or whatever. In my own 13 page research paper I’ve estimated that there are some 900,000 Deaf people in the United States. About 1/3 of them are adults, meaning they’re wage earners who can contribute to the cause. So that leaves anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000 Deaf adults who are wage earners.
Assuming that all 200,000 to 300,000 of them *WILL* contribute to the newly established all-ASL, Deaf-only private University for deaf and hard of hearing, the annual funding requirement from each Deaf adult person would amount to anywhere from $500 to $775 dollars a year from each Deaf adult wage earners at the most. Or to make it even more palatable to your senses, that would be anywhere from $42 to 65 dollars a month! Cheaper than your monthly Sidekick phone bill. Though not a guarantee that this could be the case but it’s an idea worth exploring considering what has happened lately.
In essence, it’d be the largest continual endowment fund for the express purpose to run the first ever largest and private Deaf University for deaf and hard of hearing students. In fact, if one cannot get a Deaf town up and running in South Dakota, this’ll be the next, best and easiest thing to have. Take complete control over the university by buying it from the Government with the intention showing the world that Deaf people can do anything.
Not only would you get Gallaudet University as your prize, the endowment of some $165,000,000 along with some $5,000,000 annual interest earned will be your booty to have in helping with the transition and the establishment of new Deaf programs or scholarships.
There are enough Deaf people out there right now along with Gallaudet University alumni to make this work. There are a growing number of highly successfull Deaf people (and here) out there who would gladly contribute more than $775 per year requirement. Plus there are numerous potentials of collaboration from companies run by Deaf or deaf people to have a stake in this as well. This, too, is growing on the number of Deaf-owned businesses from high tech businesses to an all-Deaf cruise vacation deals.
Although the sticky point here would be the politics of it in making such a move which could become contentitious, and, to say the least, quite interesting.
The cost seen in the FY07 annual budget is $155,000,000 to run and operate the university.
There are over 14,000 Gallaudet alumni.
So, you will need from each alumna over $11,000 each, every year. for as long as the person is breathing. Or at least have a fund raising event to raise $155,000,000 EVERY YEAR to ensure that Gallaudet continues to run and function as it were. Not even considering that this price will continue to go up every year.
But it’s not just the alumni but families who are DoD or whatever. In my own 13 page research paper I’ve estimated that there are some 900,000 Deaf people in the United States. About 1/3 of them are adults, meaning they’re wage earners who can contribute to the cause. So that leaves anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000 Deaf adults who are wage earners.
Assuming that all 200,000 to 300,000 of them *WILL* contribute to the newly established all-ASL, Deaf-only private University for deaf and hard of hearing, the annual funding requirement from each Deaf adult person would amount to anywhere from $500 to $775 dollars a year from each Deaf adult wage earners at the most. Or to make it even more palatable to your senses, that would be anywhere from $42 to 65 dollars a month! Cheaper than your monthly Sidekick phone bill. Though not a guarantee that this could be the case but it’s an idea worth exploring considering what has happened lately.
In essence, it’d be the largest continual endowment fund for the express purpose to run the first ever largest and private Deaf University for deaf and hard of hearing students. In fact, if one cannot get a Deaf town up and running in South Dakota, this’ll be the next, best and easiest thing to have. Take complete control over the university by buying it from the Government with the intention showing the world that Deaf people can do anything.
Not only would you get Gallaudet University as your prize, the endowment of some $165,000,000 along with some $5,000,000 annual interest earned will be your booty to have in helping with the transition and the establishment of new Deaf programs or scholarships.
There are enough Deaf people out there right now along with Gallaudet University alumni to make this work. There are a growing number of highly successfull Deaf people (and here) out there who would gladly contribute more than $775 per year requirement. Plus there are numerous potentials of collaboration from companies run by Deaf or deaf people to have a stake in this as well. This, too, is growing on the number of Deaf-owned businesses from high tech businesses to an all-Deaf cruise vacation deals.
Although the sticky point here would be the politics of it in making such a move which could become contentitious, and, to say the least, quite interesting.
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