Apple CEO Tim Cook will deliver Gallaudet University’s commencement address at the Washington DC campus on May 13, reports Deadline.
Cook responded in the affirmative to a Twitter invitation by Molly Feanny, the undergraduate student speaker at the university’s 2022 commencement. Noting that Gallaudet is an Apple campus, she expressed gratitude for the company’s support of the movie “CODA,” following its historic wins at the recent Academy Awards, notes Deadline.
Gallaudet University is is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. It was the first school for the advanced education of the deaf and hard of hearing in the world and remains the only higher education institution in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students.