PEN-International

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The Postsecondary Education Network International, known as PEN-International, is an international partnership of colleges and universities serving the higher education of students with hearing impairment.

PEN-International was founded by Dr. James J. DeCaro of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), with support from the Nippon Foundation in 2001, by two schools which have since been joined by three additional schools.

Lead schools

Partner schools

References

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  • [http://www.pen.ntid.rit.edu/pdf/PEN_Brief_History.pdf A history of PEN-International] by the Nippon Foundation.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310190147/http://www.rit.edu/~930www/Proj/NewsEvents/2001/Feb02/NTIDfund.html The founding of PEN-International], RIT University News Services, February 22, 2001.
  • History of the Tsukuba University of Technology [https://web.archive.org/web/20070220132831/http://www.tsukuba-tech.ac.jp/en/1_guideline.php Division for the Hearing Impaired] from 1976.
  • February 2004 Artist in residence [http://www.pen.ntid.rit.edu/events/exchanges/2003/taiko-drumming.php Taiko Drumming program] at NTID in Rochester, sponsored by PEN-International with support from the San Francisco Taiko Dojo and Project Insight.