# Anyone know if Gallaudet University receives federal funding? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 30, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385 "2006-10-30T01:36:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/1 "2006-10-30T01:36:23Z")
Just wondering if the “private” [Gallaudet University](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallaudet) receives any federal funding? ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/2 "2006-10-30T01:42:54Z")
Or even state funding for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/3 "2006-10-30T01:47:24Z")
I think so, based on [this](http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/detail.10003306.2005.html) White House web page. Over $100 million this fiscal year. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/4 "2006-10-30T01:47:49Z")
Your own Wikipedia link says that it does: “Gallaudet receives the bulk of its income in the form of an annual appropriation from Congress, and the Department of Education oversees the University’s appropriation for the Federal government.” Even if that statement turned out not to be true, it is very hard to find a university of any size in the U.S. that does not receive some federal funding. Research is often funded by federal grants so there are typically many sources of federal funding going to schools that are active in research. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/5 "2006-10-30T01:48:59Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] Your own Wikipedia link says that it does [/QUOTE] Ahhh, my mistake. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/6 "2006-10-30T01:50:22Z")
😕 Is this a trick question or something? If you read your own link that you provided in the OP, you would see: > [@](#): > > Congress incorporated the Columbia institution in 1857, significantly amended its charter in 1954 and authorizing permanent congressional appropriations. In 1986, Congress passed the Education of the Deaf Act and amended it in 1992. These Congressional acts are part of “the supreme law of Gallaudet University.” > > \ > > “Gallaudet receives the bulk of its income in the form of an annual appropriation from Congress, and the Department of Education oversees the University’s appropriation for the Federal government.” As for state funding, i doubt it, given that the school is in DC. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/7 "2006-10-30T01:51:25Z")
Too late, as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/8 "2006-10-30T01:55:21Z")
From their budget for [fiscal 2007 (PDF file)](http://af.gallaudet.edu/pdf/261541-Gallaudet-Txt_Low.pdf): > [@](#): > > The University faces significant uncertainty concerning its funding in FY 2007 > from the Federal appropriation process. The Bush Administration budget for > the University is $106.998 million, the same as our appropriation in FY 2006. > This budget request must be examined in the context of a Federal budget > deficit that is now growing toward historically large proportions of total > economic activity in the United States. In the course of reviewing revenue > assumptions for FY 2007, the UBC considered an historical analysis of the > growth and decline of Federal budget deficits. We remain concerned about the > level of the deficit, and the potential response to it by Congress. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/9 "2006-10-30T15:43:10Z")
How do you pronounce “Gallaudet”? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/10 "2006-10-30T15:47:08Z")
Around here it is pronounced “gal-you-DET.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/11 "2006-10-30T15:59:15Z")
[QUOTE=HeyHomie] How do you pronounce “Gallaudet”? [/QUOTE] You DON’T, you hearist! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/12 "2006-10-30T16:58:17Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] You DON’T, you hearist! 🆒 [/QUOTE] You can "[see"](http://www.apples4theteacher.com/translate.html) what it would look like with this translator. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/13 "2006-10-31T02:09:09Z")
interesting fun fact, diplomas from g.u. are signed by potus. ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/14 "2006-10-31T02:33:49Z")
The proper way to pronounce it is “Gall-ah-dette” with the emphasis on “ah”… Although for some reason people in DC call it “Gall-you-dette” like Ravenman said… :dubious: Drove me crazy when I was in grad school there… Luckily the Deaf students and staff at least **signed** it right… ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-if-gallaudet-university-receives-federal-funding/378385/15 "2006-10-31T03:51:33Z")
It’s pronounced as Daffyd explained. That webpage that butler1850 linked to is for finger spelling, which is not used in ordinary fluent American Sign Language. The sign for Gallaudet, which someone showed me once, is using a couple of fingers (like the sign for the letter G, I’m told) near the forehead.