Dr. Jane Fernandes is Selected as Gallaudet’s Next President
By Adam Stone on Mon 1 May 2006 |
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In a mid-afternoon announcement by Celia May Baldwin, the interim chair of the Board of Trustees, Provost Dr. Jane Kelleher Fernandes was selected to lead Gallaudet University as its ninth president. Following President I. King Jordan’s retirement in December 2006, Dr. Fernandes will become the second deaf person, and first deaf woman, to lead the university.
Dr. Fernandes has worked at Gallaudet University for the last eleven years, starting out as Vice President of the Clerc Center in 1995 and was promoted to Provost in 2000. She holds both a M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Liberature from the University of Iowa, and a B.A. in French and Comparative Literature from Trinity College (Connecticut). She has been previously employed at Northeastern University, University of Iowa, and University of Hawaii.
Congratulations to the Presidential Search Committee and the Board of Trustees for a job completed despite difficult conditions. And congratulations to Dr. Fernandes, as well.
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congratulations, dr. fernandes! hope you can do a better job of working with students now than you did before. although that didn’t keep you from becoming president! :)
I can’t say that I’m shocked but, now it’s going to be a very interesting month to say the least. It’ll be a dandy to see the Gally alumni reaction to this. Makes me wonder who will be the “Ducks” this time around?
Hi. I am totally speechless after hearing about Gallaudet’s lockdown. I am sad to say this I am a Gallaudet alumni and I think Jane F is the best deaf candidate (to be the next President of Gallaudet). However, I think the students are being immature. They just need to grow up and listen.. If they do not like it, why not walk out and not to come back to the university.
I hope the matter will be solved!
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Though I appreciate that choice in leadership fundamentally includes the opinion of the population to be lead it seems to me that segregation or exclusion on issues of diversity “fit” devalues the differences of individuals and groups, it does not protect them.
It seems to me that the students and faculty of Gallaudet that feverishly and belligerently opposed the appointment of Jane Fernandez have some deep questions to answer for themselves. Is it right to exclude a person because of an ability? Is it right to devalue people because they want to include people whose abilities are different then those in power? Is it right for the group in power to presume their ways of doing and being are most right and others should not be included? I should think the answers to this questions and the true meaning of these protests might be painful to look at. But weather I hear spoken words or gestured words, both are signs, both are signs!
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