Comments on: Jordan’s Legacy: Bewitching or Bewitched?

By: Gary Roberts

Gary Roberts — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:49:43 +0000

When you act like children you should be treated like kids. Where is the deaf community ? Virginia School for the Deaf graduated eight people last year.
Does the student body demand the right to approve ever action of the Board of Directors? The students has opened up the viper pit of denied expecations that exist at Gally. With an academic record such as Gally has how can ti continue to exis?

By: Gary Roberts

Gary Roberts — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:46:05 +0000

When you break the law you pay the price for your acts. M.L.K. went to jail as a testimony to his convctions on civil rights. These Gally protesters broke the law and then demanded immunity. Take away their SSI checks and their Voc. Rehab support and let them sink of swim .
I wont support Gally in the future and I am embarssed by the actions of this minority on the campus.

By: Curious Eyes

Curious Eyes — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:32:26 +0000

Aquafina: duh! you’re right. sorry about that.

By: Aquafina

Aquafina — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:18:48 +0000

errrr…”enrollement” should be “enrollment”. Whatever happened to the edit link? Sigh.

By: Aquafina

Aquafina — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:17:11 +0000

Curious Eyes:

I never talked about plummeting enrollement in my response to Julie’s posting; I did talk about plummeting GRADUATION RATES though. I wish you would read my response MORE carefully before responding.

I invite you to re-read my response to Julie’s posting to verify my comments.

By: Curious Eyes

Curious Eyes — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:18:21 +0000

sure thing, Katherine. The paper by Thomas Allen at GRI about college students is kinda old (1994), but it’s rather shocking that the trends we’re all concerned about had started so long ago. (And no, it didn’t have anything to do about IKJ’s job performance.) I seem to recall reading a more recent article on this kind of info, and will look it up for you.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:12:48 +0000

Deaf Pundit:

I do believe there are some who go to other universities. The interest in enrolling Gallaudet may have decreased by some after the protest, but I think with the right kind of leadership — Dr. Davila and the one appointed after him — it will change in Gallaudet’s favor.

Curious Eyes:

Thanks for the link! Whenever I get a chance, I’ll take a look at it.

By: Curious Eyes

Curious Eyes — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:03:44 +0000

Katherine, you can probably find lots of data at the Gallaudet Research Institute (GRI) web site, here:

http://gri.gallaudet.edu/Demographics/

My favorite links are the annual surveys, and the answer to your question about college students can probably be found in the postsecondary students section.

By: A Deaf Pundit

A Deaf Pundit — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:54:31 +0000

I know a quite few deaf who have gone to other universities, not Gallaudet. And I’ve been told that after the protests, the local deaf community’s interest in going to Gallaudet has drastically reduced. *shrugs*

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:44:45 +0000

How do you know it’s because some are going to the other universities? It could be that more and more deaf children have fallen through the crack and do not qualify to be a college material?

The problem here is the lack of documentations on all deaf children and where they’re enrolled. We need to keep record of that and form a statistic based on the information we gather, including those dumped at deaf schools.