Category Archives: Protests

Washington Pose: Gallaudet Protesters’ Camp Demolished, Injuring Some

The tense, month-long standoff between Gallaudet University protesters and the school’s administration grew heated again yesterday as students occupied a campus building and school officials used a piece of construction equipment to try to clear a blockaded campus entrance.

The Chronicle: Building Takeover at Gallaudet Ends Peacefully, but Several Students Are Injured in Separate Clash

About 50 student protesters at Gallaudet University occupied and locked down an administrative building before dawn on Wednesday, and later that morning, a handful of protesters were injured when they attempted to prevent campus security officers from opening a gate that students had blockaded for about two weeks.

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Inside Higher Ed: Searching for Answers at Gallaudet

As the fractious situation at Gallaudet University appears headed for some kind of resolution on Sunday, with a special meeting planned by the university’s Board of Trustees, supporters and critics of Jane K. Fernandes remain deeply divided over the core of the dispute about her possible ascension to the presidency.

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WCSH6.com: UNH Faculty Union Takes Protest Action

The University of New Hampshire’s faculty union, which is in stalled contract talks, has voted to keep teaching, but to do nothing else not required by their job.

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The Chronicle: As Unrest Continues, Hundreds of Gallaudet U. Students and Supporters March to U.S. Capitol

Hundreds of Gallaudet University students and their supporters marched from the university’s campus to the United States Capitol on Saturday to continue their protest against the appointment of Gallaudet’s former provost as its next president.

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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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Inside Higher Ed: Gallaudet Faculty Joins In

Monday was supposed to be the day Gallaudet University got back to business. After student and alumni protesters shut the campus down for several days, and university officials called in police officers late Friday to end the standoff and arrest more than 130 students, the university got off to a fairly normal start yesterday. Although protesters manned the front gate, classes were held as usual, and the football players who had locked the campus down on Wednesday were back in uniform and running drills on Hotchkiss Field. The soccer team hosted Wesley College in a tough match and lost 4-0.

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