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Isaac Agboola
Making History at Gallaudet
Isaac Agboola was appointed chair of the Department
of Business at Gallaudet University effective May 2003. He is the
first deaf African American chair of an academic department at Gallaudet
University. The Department of Business offers four major areas:
Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Information Systems,
and Economics & Finance. Agboola has also recently received
a grant from Microsoft Corporation to establish an information technology
training program for deaf college students and working deaf adults.
Agboola is the Secretary of the District of Columbia
Black Deaf Advocates and Workshops Chair for the 2003 NBDA Conference.
He is involved in numerous community activities including serving
on the Maryland Governor's Advisory Board for Telecommunications
Relay (GABTR), Treasurer of the Gallaudet University Alumni Association,
and advisor to the Zeta Sigma Psi fraternity, a new fraternity established
by black male students at Gallaudet University. Agboola is also
co-chair of the Linwood D. Smith Memorial Scholarship Committee,
which annually awards scholarships to deserving African American
students at Gallaudet University.
The Department of Business website is: http://gusom.gallaudet.edu.
For more information about the Microsoft IT Academy program at Gallaudet
University, e-mail pst@gallaudet.edu
or visit the website: http://gspp.gallaudet.edu/shapes/pst/pst.html.
Michael E Graziano
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