The Chronicle: Gallaudet, Happy With Results, Holds Onto Its ‘Interim’ President
Gallaudet University, the nation’s only liberal-arts institution for the deaf, may have figured out a way to avoid the raging protests that have marked its last two presidential transitions: Keep the current guy.
Benjamin J. Soukup, chairman of Gallaudet’s Board of Trustees, sent a campuswide memo on Tuesday in which he stated that the search for a new university president “will not be starting for some time.”
The president is Robert R. Davila, who was appointed in December 2006 after the trustees, facing widespread student-led protests that shut down the campus here, rescinded their appointment of Jane K. Fernandes. That had been preceded some 18 years earlier by similar protests that led to the selection of I. King Jordan as the first deaf president of Gallaudet.
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