Dr. Elisabeth Zinser resigned Thursday night as president of Gallaudet University after angry protests against her appointment by students demanding a deaf president for the liberal arts school ...

Instead, the board of trustees chose the only hearing candidate, Elisabeth Zinser, vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Jubilant students at Gallaudet University marched and rallied Friday to reinforce demands for the board of trustees to select a deaf president after the midnight resignation of Dr. Elisabeth Zinser… ...

The university's president retired, and the board of trustees named Elisabeth Zinser, an assistant chancellor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, as the new president.

The university’s president retired, and the board of trustees named Elisabeth Zinser, an assistant chancellor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, as the new president. Zinser was ...

The “now” in “Deaf President Now!” refers to the second week of March 1988 — when the students of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., united in protest of the board’s choice of a ...

Jane Bassett Spilman (left) and Elisabeth Zinser (center) in "Deaf President Now!," coming to Apple TV+ May 16. Ultimately, the students do see their Deaf president in I. King Jordan, then a dean.

The university’s board of trustees, composed mostly of hearing individuals, chose Elisabeth Zinser, an educator with a nursing background. Zinser had no connection to Gallaudet or the deaf ...

This month, 29 years ago, a group of students on the campus of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., expectantly awaited the announcement that Dr. Irving King Jordan had been appointed ...

The third was Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She had no experience of Deaf community or knowledge of ASL.

The “now” in “Deaf President Now!” refers to the second week of March 1988 — when the students of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., united in protest of the board’s choice of a ...