Kyle Blakely Enrolled at Nationally-Known College at RIT

2012 Oct 3

Kyle Blakely, of Silver Spring, Md., has enrolled in Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the nation's first and largest technological college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

He is a 2012 graduate of Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick. He is the son of William Blakely and Sher Stevens-Blakely.

Rochester Institute of Technology is internationally recognized for academic leadership in business, computing, engineering, imaging science, liberal arts, sustainability, and fine and applied arts. In addition, the university offers unparalleled support services for more than 1,300 deaf and hard-of-hearing students. RIT enrolls nearly 18,000 full- and part-time students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, and its cooperative education program is one of the oldest and largest in the nation.

NTID, one of nine colleges of RIT, was established by Congress in 1965 to provide college opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing students who were underemployed in technical fields. Visit: www.rit.edu/NTID.