One Way to Increase Interpreter Supply

Baylor University in Texas has come up with a way to easily increase the supply of interpreters, as reported in this story from the Baylor Lariat. (They mistakenly refer to Video Relay Service as Visual Relay Service, incidentially). What Baylor has done is pure common sense - they created a minor in interpreting that ANY student can take. To ensure that students develop competency in sign, the minor requires four levels of sign language training. This enables the students to take (and hopefully pass) the interpreter certification tests.