CSUN student Spencer Logan. Photo by Ivanna Valdivia/Daily Sundial.

California State University, Northridge boasts one of the most progressive deaf studies programs in the country, housed in the widely recognized National Center on Deafness. So it’s no surprise that when Spencer Logan wanted to study American Sign Language, or ASL, as a deaf studies major, he decided to come to Northridge. On the CSUN campus, he feels the vast deaf community allows him to tackle learning ASL better.

“Interaction with them really helps me build my own communicative skills and learn about the culture and become a better interpreter,” Logan told the Daily Sundial. Besides working on his skills in the classroom, Logan has made connections outside the classroom as well, joining the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. It has many deaf members, and in it in, Logan as found a fostering community. According to the Sundial, Kappa Sigma “has brothers who are hard of hearing and/or are also majoring in deaf studies,” and this helps Logan further his studies.

Logan has also experienced firsthand that CSUN gives its students the resources to make it work at the college level. As a student juggling work and school, it’s exactly the kind of support he needed.

“It made me capable to get an outstanding GPA after that,” Logan said of the help and attention he received from various offices and professors around campus. “I found that CSUN is an amazing campus with a lot of wonderful resources and really passionate teachers.”

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