Alan Hurwitz

T. Alan Hurwitz (born 1942) is an American educator who served as the tenth president of Gallaudet University from 2010 to 2015, the first person born deaf, and the first Jew, to hold that position. He was born profoundly deaf to deaf parents and attended the Central Institute for the Deaf. He began at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in 1970 after working for McDonnell Douglas, held a series of progressively more senior posts there, and later served as president of the institute and as vice president and dean of Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a former president of the National Association of the Deaf and has served on the boards of organizations serving deaf people. He earned degrees in electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University and an Ed.D. in curriculum and teaching from the University of Rochester.