Inside Higher Ed: Gallaudet’s President Has His Say
or the last few weeks, Gallaudet University has been torn apart by protests — led by students but joined by faculty, staff and alumni — over the selection last spring of Jane K. Fernandes, the provost, to succeed I. King Jordan, the university’s president for the last 18 years. Jordan, the first deaf person to preside over the world’s most prominent university for the deaf, himself was selected after a 1988 student protest over the hiring of another (hearing) person for president. Jordan had been extremely popular, but Monday, three days after he ordered the arrest of 133 students who had been blocking access to the campus, the university’s Faculty Senate voted no confidence in him and the Board of Trustees, and called on Fernandes to resign. On Tuesday, the same day he announced he was calling off this week’s planned homecoming activities because of the continued turmoil, he spoke to Inside Higher Ed about the controversy and about Gallaudet’s future.
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