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

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History

Lead schools

Partner schools

See also

External links

History

PEN-International, with support from the Nippon Foundation, was founded in 2001 by two schools which have since been joined by three additional schools.

Lead schools

★ USA: Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), in Rochester, New York.

★ Japan: Tsukuba University of Technology (TUT), formerly Tsukuba College of Technology (TCT), Division for the Hearing Impaired, in Tsukuba, Japan.

Partner schools

★ China: Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin Technical College for the Deaf, in Tianjin, China.

★ Russia: Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Center on Deafness, in Moscow, Russia.

★ Philippines: De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies, in Malate, Manila, Philippines.

See also

★ Project Insight

External links

★ Pen-International Home Page

★ The founding of PEN-International, RIT University News Services, February 22, 2001.

★ PEN-International strategy and goals

★ History of the Tsukuba University of Technology Division for the Hearing Impaired from 1976.

★ A history of PEN-International by the Nippon Foundation.

★ February 2004 Artist in residence Taiko Drumming program at NTID in Rochester, sponsored by PEN-International with support from the San Francisco Taiko Dojo.