Shirley Shultz-Myers’s Response To The Leadership Issue
By Chris and Allison Kaftan on Wed 10 May 2006 |
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This letter, posted on GallyNet, interested us for obvious reasons. Looking forward to your healthy, reasoned responses. Thanks to S. Robinson for calling it to our attention.
From: Shirley Shultz Myers
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:27 PM
To: gallynet-l@gallynet.org
Subject: [GallyNet-L] Response to the leadership issueTo the current argument that Jane has not demonstrated leadership, I reply:
One grievance that has become part of the protest against Jane Fernandes is that the Gallaudet community has not listened to the voices of people of color and has not supported the BDSU [Black Deaf Students Union]. I ask you: Who was the first administrator to have given BDSU strong financial and moral support and contributed to building them up as a force to be heard by the SBG [Student Body Government] and other people on campus? Who paid for and attended their recent spring banquet? Who supported the Step Afrika performance? Jane Fernandes.
Who moved quickly to build a diversity plan to address the campus climate and produce the diversity and multiculturalism almost everyone professes to want? Who made it a priority of her time (although some wanted a slower response which would have meant a more delay in addressing this critical aspect of the campus climate)? Jane Fernandes.
Who began dialogue about audism and racism this year as part of her work on changing the campus climate? Who backed strongly the Safe Zone training after the murders in 2000? Jane Fernandes.
Who wrestled, behind the scenes, with the status quo in terms of financial versus academic cycles in an effort to have the business side serve academic needs, not the other way around and who succeeded? Jane Fernandes.
Who brought us through two murders that could have crippled Gallaudet?
Who brought us through 9/11 and instituted safety plans so well and so quickly that she advised federal agencies? Jane Fernandes.
Who led the development of the first ever deaf aesthetics and deaf centric and visucentric concepts? Jane Fernandes.
Who understands the best practices and trends in higher education and can converse with established academic consultants on these topics? Who has supported seeds of change in teaching and learning and now is moving toward a comprehensive and specific plan of actions to realize best practices and current trends at Gallaudet? Jane Fernandes.
Who took the lead to get the Mellon Presidential Fellowship for faculty development and course development in interdisciplinary studies and for capstone support? Jane Fernandes.
Who directed the library after the Librarian vacated his job in order to gain a deeper understanding of the library and gather information for a new Librarian? As part of the information gathering, who set up a library review committee to do an extensive review to address information literacy and technology needs as well as to support our position as leader in Deaf related research? Who then handed the library over to Eileen Matthews for oversight while making plans for a second search after the first one failed through no fault of anyone at Gallaudet? Who hired a librarian from a diverse background with the expectation that the new librarian will work carefully to implement the ideas of the library review committee? Jane Fernandes
Who quintupled the Honors Program budget in order to build a stronger academic culture and higher standards when other administrators let it languish or even tried to cut an already tiny budget? Who has facilitated a budding respect for academic culture at Gallaudet by backing this program and paying for book authors to speak on campus? Who began and continues to seek to address rampant plagiarism and other issues of academic integrity issues? Who dismissed or supported the dismissal of top students for lack of academic integrity although it has meant attacks by arrogant, unrepentant student enemies? Jane Fernandes.
Who had enough integrity and cared enough about Gallaudet to reject the soft corruption of turning a blind eye to limited results and the easy popularity of cronyism. Who cut less successful programs across the campus even though it meant earning long term enemies? Jane Fernandes.
So.
No leadership? No heart for inclusive Deaf life and higher academic standards? No integrity? Maybe we cannot see what we have never experienced. Maybe we cannot understand what have no concept of. Maybe we have no humility about our individual lenses. Maybe Jane Fernandes believes in us more than we believe in ourselves.
Posting despite the witch hunt hysteria that has closed minds to dialogue,
Shirley Myers
P.S. While I am here, I would like to state for the record these facts to counter false accusations of scandal surrounding her tenure: The ASL and Deaf Studies Department initiated tenure for Jane Fernandes and requested documentation from her of her academic achievements to support their request for tenure for her. The Promotion and Tenure (P and T) Committee saw the documentation, certified that she met the requirements for tenure and supported the department’s recommendation. Jane had nothing to do with the processing of paperwork and was not involved except to provide documentation of her academic achievements to the Department of ASL and Deaf Studies at their request.
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This is the first concrete listing of Fernandes’ achievements at Gallaudet. Are there any rebuttals?
Seconded.
This was a very fine response to the only negative aspect — that a library was vacated.
Thank you for sharing.
Deaf-centrism rears its ugly head.
Finally. Now someone’s finally said what Jane Fernandes has actually done. The list looks pretty impressive.
Why did it take a week and half for a list of this type to come out? It’s so, so much easier to criticize than to praise. Not everything a Provost does is immediately obvious. I should know. I worked with several student body presidents while I was involved in the student paper at RIT/NTID.
The quietest president, the one that was most criticized for “doing nothing,” ended up being the originator of several much-needed reforms whose usefulness only became apparent a few months or years down the road. Not saying that this applies to Fernandes, but it’s an useful principle to keep in mind.
Oh, also…
Wow!
THANK YOU Allison for posting this. It would be such an insult to Gallaudet if the BOT would have appointed someone without any accomplishments. With that said, my question is, why hasnt her accomplishments been recieved positively or even acknowledged by the community? Lack of public relations? Or is that students do not want to acknowledge her accomplishments simply because of their poor relationship with her? A leader must learn how to get the message across to the community as whole and see that it is received positively, if not address that. All good leaders allow feedback to get back to them to make improvements, why hasnt that been the case in the last 6 years? FYI Im asking because I dont know, not because Im trying to portray her as a failure.
I suspect that she is filling the role of a devil advocate, an outsider who wishes to improve Gallaudet by breaking the status quo.
We all are very aware of the dark history at Gallaudet, even gossiped among ourselves about it, and yet when someone place a glaring light on it, the messenger get attacked.
It is times like these when I subscribe to the crab theory. Gallaudet is a bucket filled with crabs and when one crab attempts to get up, he or she can only do so by climbing on top of the other crabs, and the crabs react by pulling down the crab who tried.
You can also say that Fernandes made the critical mistake of failing to placate two power blocs at Gallaudet — the 10 percenters and certain faculty members. Whether this will result in her ouster remains yet to be seen.
Who are the ten percenters?
I believe he’s refering to the 90/10 rule - where 90% of the deaf are from hearing families etc.
So he’s probably referring to the 10% of the student population at Gallaudet being from Deaf families, deaf schools, etc. In other words the “hard core Deaf” group.
And those 10 percenters run Deafhood!!!
Those 10 percents do NOT run “Deafhood”! This is a false statement. “Deafhood” is not being “deaf enough” or some such false statement. It is a process, a journey. It is much more than that!
p.s. I am not a 10 percenter and I was mainstreamed, a Gally graduate as well and I feel that “Deafhood” applies to ALL Of us.
Ok, “d”eafhood applies to all of us.
Well said! Kudos to Shirley!
Hmmm, that could be the best answer to my previous question: how effective or ineffective is Fernandes as Provost? The list is impressive - multiculturalism/diversity, fellowship opportunities, higher academic standards, and protecting Gallaudet through the murders and the 9/11 tragedies. Now, we see her strengths and appreciate this new information. By the way, can anyone tell me what exactly “deaf aesthetics” and “deaf centric and visucentric concepts” are? Never heard of it.
Then again, why did the majority of the faculty vote against her? I don’t accept the theory that it was based on revenge after her handling of the MSSD and Kendall curriculums. It must be something more than that.
I too wondered what they meant. Very abstract without telling you anything really. But I’m glad to finally see the positives of what Jane has done for a change, instead of what she hasn’t. I will quibble with Myers on the whole library situation, because that is truly reprehensible to have a library still at Gally that is not up to date at all, nor is a major force in our studies. At least not when I was going there.
But you’re right, the fact that the faculy voted on a no-confidence vote against her means there has to be more to the story than what Myers has stated. As students, we can only speculate what those might be.
there’s a list of achievments, where’s the stuff to the balance the positive with the negative (an offical list of things gone bad)? I’ll refrain from applause or nasty comments until I see the ‘whole” picture.
Ah, an official pros and cons list. That’d be great. Anybody willing to do that?
Without trying to appear mean, how many of the achievements were original ideas?
I am reposting this without permission from Dave Pancost who replied to Shirley Shultz Myers posting:
Shirley, I worked with JK a bit when she was at Pre College, and I developed a lot of respect and admiration for her. She is one smart, capable person; she’s committed to Deaf education and Gallaudet; and she has a good heart. So I was thrilled when she became Provost; I thought she’d do a great job & go on to become a great president. But it hasn’t worked out that way.
You and I could analyze everything she’s done over the past 12 years, pointing with pride here & viewing with alarm there, but none of that matters. JK cannot lead this University simply because so many faculty and students don’t want to follow. They may be mistaken, they may be acting from base motives, they may be misinformed–none of that matters. They don’t want to follow. Her approval ratings are about where Bush’s are; she’s starting her presidency where Larry Summers ended his. It’s over, game, set, match. Sooner or later, she’ll realize this & quit, and the sooner the better. If she tries to make a go of it, she’ll only prolong the agony. It’s time to select a new president & begin putting the pieces back together.
My heart goes out to her & her family. They don’t deserve to go through this. No one does. I hope that they can through this soon & put their own lives back together.
I have to say Pancost does get to the point, doesn’t he?
So the rebuttal is:
“She’s not popular.”
Nice. Anything a bit better than that?
I don’t get it. Why include politics in this by comparing JKF to Bush’ approval ratings?
Better get that list of pros and cons about JKF done, pronto!
Enough of this crapola. What are they goihg to do? Complain about the library thing again? Or do some more protests on Graduation Day?
The media have already taken a mad run with the stories about the messes of what the protesting has done so far. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the media get a hold of JKF’s accomplishments and make a go of it.
A note about media, has anyone seen J. Termini’s letter to NBC?
Thanks for reading my blog :-)
Larry Summers saw that many of his initiatives may be in danger of not succeeding with him at the helm so he resigned. Ironically, his successor has continued some of these programs quietly and without much fanfare (I may be wrong - no fact checking here).
Can Jane F. do the same? It’s something for her to ponder? I feel bad for her but leadership only works when you can get people to buy in your plan - it’s basic knowledge. Jim Collins addresses this in his excellent books: “Built to Last” and “Good to Great”.
Re the comment that faculty don’t want to follow JK: I wonder if folks are forgetting that when Fernandes takes over the presidency, it won’t matter if fac want to follow her or not. there will be a NEW provost they’ll have to follow! It will be interesting to see how she bridges the gap with the allegedly protesting faculty.
Here it is:
To: nightly@nbcnews.com
Subject: Tonight’s story on Gallaudet
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 01:17:01 +0000
Dear Nightly,
I have been a member of the faculty at Gallaudet University for almost 31 years. I have also watched NBC daily since the days of Dave Garroway and Huntley-Brinkley. I have never been moved to contact your organization, but tonight I must.
The story you ran tonight on Jane Fernandes and the protest over her selection as our next President is horribly, horribly inaccurate. I am appalled that your organization chose to accept Dr. Fernandes’ sadly misconstrued depiction of the issues. Her claim that she is ‘not deaf enough’ is outrageous, as is your omission of yesterday’s clear votes of no confidence by the University faculty. None of the four resolutions passed by the faculty related in any way to Dr. Fernandes’ cultural identity. We have clearly and appropriately expressed our lack of confidence in her appointment, based on her performance as Provost of this University.
I have spent the past week becoming increasingly appalled at my beloved university’s administration. Tonight I am appalled that you, the network I have never, ever, left, has misrepresented the facts so glaringly. Gallaudet students, faculty, and alumni deserve better, and so do your viewers.
Sincerely,
Judith W. Termini
Associate Professor, Communication Studies and First Year Experience
Gallaudet University
posted on a xanga site, copy, paste pronto!
Interesting. This person is denying what have been clearly stated in other blogs about Fernandez. I shall shamelessly quote it:
“that it was their deepest aspiration and desire that a DEAF-CENTRIC LEADER would be selected as the next President” — Jeff Rosen.
This theme have been carried for days until it was suppressed in favor of the “Unity” theme.
Why are they denying this?
For a fuller context, Rosen’s comments can be found on: http://www.ridorlive.com/?p=1653
“Suppressed” is too strong a word, I think. While those at Gallaudet seem to have varying reasons to have JF ousted/resign, they all agree that JF cannot lead. From what I understand, the FSSA is starting to be successful in their drive to make the protest more than whatever people and the media claimed it was about on May 1st. A key ingredient to the FSSA’s success is the unified belief that JF cannot lead, and the faculty senate’s recent vote of no confidence lends some support to FSSA. The specific issues of audism, racism, and other serious problems at Gallaudet seems to be put on hold until the current crisis of leadership is resolved.
I hope that the FSSA is developing a plan that takes good advantage of the momentum brought on by their unification of individuals and groups who agree on JF’s (perceived) lack of leadership abilities. Such a plan needs to be immediately activated when JF resigns or is ousted. Serious and well-organized discussion of the underlying issues, including those that seem to vex people like Rosen, must be formally instituted.
The FSSA and supporters should stand firm until JF goes. When she does, the onus is on them to make sure that such a plan is put into action. Something good and reedeeming must come out of this.
Again and again I ask the question, unity for whom?
Those people will never rest until a 10-percenter becomes Gally’s next president and carries out the Deafhood agenda in its twisted “Deafier than thou” form!
1 con- JK destroyed MSSD/KDES.. They are left to clean up her mess….Steven Gagnon asked her when she wanted to re-organized MSSD/KDES to a team philosophy if we were lab rats, she said YES…..
During the re-organization, who knows how many teachers/staff quit or was fired/laid off after that massive re-organization and it accomplished NOTHING…..
A student was suspended because he videotaped the announcement of the re-organization and spoke up against it….
What she did… MSSD and KDES set up teams for each grade. some teachers would be forced to teach multi-subjects and in high school, freshmen couldn’t take classes with seniors.
for example, a transfer Sophomore student enrolls MSSD, she/he already has took geometery in other schools, but in sophomore team, they are taking geometery, and bascially, the student has to re-take it to follow the system..
2nd, smart students had to take the same classes with those unfortunated students… how did that help with their education?
Did JK listen, NO. she left MSSD, and KJ is left to repair her mistakes, now I understand that MSSD is starting to go back to old system (departments not teams)
Err…the pros and cons list? This is not about anecdotal evidences or hearsay, even if it’s true. It has to be more solid and less like some gossipy review.
Mcconnell, this is one of the cons.. jesus… I’m sure people will pitch in to add more. and no this is a FACT, go to MSSD/KDES, you will see that they have changed their system…..
this is one to counter the pros. You can ask JK herself, she admitted she made a mistake with MSSD/KDES re-organization.. but she might add some stuff to make it look less serious though…
I said, make it less gossipy sounding. I didn’t say it wasn’t true. Plus, these things have to be verified as well as people go down the list.
same with the pros shirley myers sent….
I know for a fact, JK did not do the whole thing by herself.. She would take the credit… For example, Eric Plunkett scholarship.. who really started it??? It was Sonny Wasilowski and his fellow Minners, but JK took the credit!
for sure, I would disupute the part when the murders happened. it was the students, not JK who took care of this….
And JK is prolly better as a administrator with someone watching over her, but not as a leader/president.
The list Myers, could be a gossip, we do not know for a fact that she actually did it…
Brendan Stern had hard time working with her to get audism committe set up and actually walk the talk.
Yes I know.. I was there.. But I’ll refrain from giving details. Those meetings wore me out so badly. I’ll remain neutral.
Thank you for sharing. Can you point me to a particular forum where I can learn a bit more about this issue?
I know some of those “accomplishments” and they actually are exaggerated. Ms. Schultz-Myers isn’t what you’d call a dispassionate observer- she heads the honors program and Ms. Fernandes, to her credit, had given it a big financial boost. Just keep that in mind. And nobody’s saying Dr. F never accomplished anything- just that her liabilities outweigh her assets.
Nevertheless, always good to hear the other side.
“Who backed strongly the Safe Zone training after the murders in 2000?” IKJ’s office, and several faculty offices has their “Safe Zone” sign, but provost’s office has none. hmmm…. Does anyone know if there ever was one?
I don’t know about that, but her office has funded the interpreters for monthly PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Bisexual and Transgendered people) meetings for four years. This is a huge financial support, and one that has made a huge difference in terms of a climate of acceptance for GLBT folks on the Gallaudet campus. It has meant an ongoing and consistent place of support for students around their coming out issues.
Thank you Dr. Myers!
How disappointing it is to see another instance of Gallaudet faculty failing to demonstrate reasoning or persuasive skills expected of their profession. We first saw Jane Norman interspersing hysterics among the non sequitors in her letter, which is not becoming of a professor of Communication. That her letter is no longer on JF’s Gallaudet website is a relief, but the damage has compounded the crisis. Dr. Norman’s understanding of media appears lacking in her partiticipation of an ill-produced video of individuals signing platitudes about diversity, which used to be insterted not only on JF’s website but Gallaudet’s home page. (Where did that video go?)
Schultz-Meyer, a professor of English, has written a slightly more sensible letter, but not one she (or anybody else) should be proud of. If we follow the thrust of her argument, one would think that she is arguing that JF is behind every positive event that happened on campus, from events occurring at the administrative level down to students’ academic achievements. Naturally JF must have been directly responsible for a sufficient number of accomplishments as provost that satisfied the powers that be, but it is not enough to just list any accomplishment occurring during her tenure as provost. One can easily take this line of argument and fault JF for every negative event that has occurred on campus.
More to the point, to an outsider like myself, it is difficult to accept most of the items on Schultz-Meyer’s list as indicators of excellent leadership without having witnessed these so-called achievements. While we could ask a faculty member opposed to JF’s appointment to offer detailed counterarguments to such claims of leadership, given the vote of no confidence from faculty and students (and likely from staff as well), such an action is moot. I think I understand why people like Adam Stone who have little if any stake in this (other than their Deafhood which is a fascinating and sensible concept) are caught up in this debacle, but I suspect that the only issue worth arguing over at this time pertains to the vote of no confidence.
JF’s removal or resignation would halt the degeneration of this crisis.
People do need to justify the no-confidence vote. People have to defend their reasons all the time.
I don’t view JKF very favorably. Her now infamous ‘Perfect Storm’ speech was a disaster. WTH was that all about? :P Not only that, her handling of this entire thing shows that she DOES lack the right leadership for Gally, sadly enough.
On the other hand, the protestors have made a HUGE mess out of this, and to rip off the title of the Kaftans’ title… *shot themselves in the foot*. Threats, conflicted messages about what the protest’s about, and so on.
Blah! And I think we all have a stake in this. What’s happening at Gally, will have ripple effects nationwide. And from how it’s going, the effects will be chilling!
Politics! the BoT vote reminds of the electoral college. Who remembers that the popular vote went for Gore and the electoral vote went for Bush? A much better analogy than the “perfect storm”.
A good leader doesn’t always make their accomplishments public, but works behind the scenes. Perhaps that is Dr. Myers’ point.
I’m sure fellow students/faculty/etc. worked HARD behind the scenes - they don’t make their accomplishments in public either. Do JKF gets full credit for that?
Classof99er is right. Check this out.
http://sonnyjames.blogspot.com.....andes.html
Thanks for the link, Just sign me P. Wonderful, Sonny James. Does anyone wants to acknowledge Deb Skjeveland and other fellow persons? Or the ENTIRE FULL CREDIT goes to JK?
As a counterpoint to your argument, I noticed that everything that ever went wrong with Gallaudet during the past 6 years was always JK’s fault. Another thing folks are forgetting is that she is not the only one on campus doing the work — what about faculty, students, and staff? As the saying goes, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” I see JK making efforts to reach out to the community and doing so in a calm and professional manner. It takes a strong person to do that. By contrast, the protestors are saying rescind and resign, nothing else — no halfway resolution.
How about the things done right over the past 6 years? And are students still angry at her over the goal post thing? Please. It was a tremendous safety issue. And they STILL get their jollies pulling those damn fire alarms which is, again, another safety issue many blithely do not care.
Mcconnell, again you are an idiot.. its not just the goal post… man… get off the computer and open your eyes, stop assuming..
idiot.
I never said it was just only the goal post thing. I still see (and hear) resentments carried to this day about it. Why? I want to hear your perspective. Also, no assumption on my part. I know there were other issues but really…that goal post thing? She did the right thing.
Sounds more and more like a personality issue rather than a leadership issue.
Please read today’s forum:
http://www.xanga.com/elisa_abenchuchan/
somebody so self-absorbed that she’d lie to publicly discredit 3/4 of the university in order to hang on to presidency…a true leader!
Its pitiful, the hole is only going to get deeper if she keeps digging it.
I think that the hole is being dug deeper on the other side of the spectrum with all that media going on.
It was just announced on NBC about the protest, that the students are questioning her qualifications..and they showed a a clip of a very angry K. Wood. And a clip of the 1988 effigy burning..
And whose fault? Dr. Fernandes. Precisely my point. Why the hell are you defending her for? She’s partially responsible for the mediocrity of the academics @ Gally for the past 6-11 yrs. If you’re for a clean slate and boosting academic standards, demand that we get somebody better.
Fault? I don’t think she encouraged deaf students to party all the time nor forced them to study, either. These students are adults, not kiddies.
Perhaps if you could define exactly what mediocrity you’re talking about when it comes to academic. Many students do a pretty good job on mediocrity when it comes to partying 3 nights a week.
Hmm. Cali state (Chico) campus partyin’ everyday - that’s more than “3 nites a week”. Gally is not the only one. There’s hard-workin’, honest students to achieve their GPA at Gally. So is Cali State better than Gally?
“People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.”
Yes, sure. No doubt there are hard working students. I guess you were unable to “read between the line” on what I was trying to say. Students are responsible for their own education. They are adults. Or are we talking about leading them around by their hands and the Administration spoon feed them? The first year as a freshman student, I had a very hard time learning sign language and most often I miss out what the teachers were saying in ASL. So, I relied on my books and the library to get the job done. And got A’s and B’s as a result. Maybe I should blame academic for not getting me a voice interpreter? Students are entitled to have one. No?
Also, forgot to add this, the bottom line is that students are ultimately responsible for their own academic achievements. Blaming the Administration for their failure is beyond ridiculousness. Remember, this is a university filled with adults. This is not about kiddie schools here.
McWeenie, students dont control the funds…. if we did, we would have sponsor more educational programs… but no, BoT and current administration has their own way..
idiot.
mcconnell, oh ok the hell w/ academics. Have profs teach nursery rhymes and save a lot of money. After all we’re responsible for our education.
Exactly what are the academics are you guys missing out on? I hear you whine about it but do not give examples on what could be added or improved to education programs. Give me some examples (meaning more than one) on what need to be added to the university programs. Is it tougher and more challenging courses? What? Is it about increasing English requirements? What education programs do you have in mind that need improvements. I can’t read your mind. ‘Splain.
Lest you don’t know, Gallaudet University now has an endowment fund worth over $165 million dollars. The interest income alone generates $4 million a year. They plan to spend the income interest on new programs and scholarships.
Again, ad hominem attacks are certainly not a sign of strength. Especially from people who are anonymous.
When I was a senior in high school, I filled out few college applications, and one of ‘em is Gallaudet. I was slightly perplexed that SATs was not required for Gallaudet. SATs was not part of admission’s requirements in Gallaudet until few years ago. Certainly not student wanted to remove it from the requirement. Which one was the administration’s status quo: X number of freshmen OR X number of achievement in education?
Anyway, all the sudden, faculty whined & students whined. Lack of communication popped up everywhere. Too much parties. Then strategy changed. Too much unnecessary required courses than the college board recommended. Transfer students “starts over again,” despite of their transcripts (in either way - transfer to/from Gally). Strategy changed. Added more frustration throughout the years. Change, change, change.
I’m all for education, a wonderful, equal opportunity for every individual, no matter where he/she from. Yes, responsibility comes with it. So do college administration. They’re responsible for the future of Gallaudet. How do they “run” the campus successfully? They can either run it like a jungle, a prison, or even an ivy league.
Don’t get me wrong, Gally, NTID/RIT, CSUN, and several colleges are wonderful. It’s someone’s pride & joy. Some treats it like it’s a family. There is no perfect college, perfect administration, or even a perfect human being. No blame game, or “any” game whatsoever here. I whines, you whines, everybody whines….
“To err is human.”
Definitely a lot of whining lately.
Test Scores ….Percent Scores Submitted
SAT Verbal: 320 - 550 13%
SAT Math: 360 - 520 13%
http://apps.collegeboard.com/s.....rofileId=6
Interesting.
Check out other colleges in the search menu.
Which is a great segue to Bren (yes, Ron’s kid) Stern’s video about intelligence at Gallaudet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P5bA0Nk17s
I am happy to see some people talking about the good Jane Has done and not just the bad. I was there for the campus murders and she was a calm and assuring presence. She made sure she kept students in the loop and was an effective voice for Gallaudet during this crisis.
I am sorry to see that the faculty voted no confidence. Readers should keep in mind that some people have their own issues towards JK and are perhaps using this opportunity to ‘get back’ at her. I hope this is not the case because it makes the university look like a sad place.
I read the resolutions that the faculty voted on and I see the one that both recognized the problems on campus and accepted the BoT decision was the only one defeated. The faculty, staff and students all play a role in the environment on campus and it will take a solution that will involve all. We all have to recognize our faults and mistakes and not throw them all on one person. I was happy to see FSSA speak out against threats to the board but I am VERY unhappy to see the other mean comments being made about board members. This feeds in the the culture war agruement and does nothing to find a way forward. Those writing such mean things should be stopped.
Erin, I agree.. I was happy to see FSSA make a statementa bout comments but they should have included Jane Fernandez… the FSSA should say, “we do not encourage defamation, threats, etc.. against any board member and Jane Fernandez”. If the FSSA does this then I might support them, right now I don’t because they have not made a public statement not to slander Jane in public by other blogs - some blogs claim they are not slandering against Jane but publish trash