A Step Forward: Possible Guidelines For The Future
We need to discuss the establishment of new guidelines so DPN and Unity for Gallaudet won’t be repeated. A better system must be built to maximize the benefits for the students as the consumers.
I read Bobby White’s article (Concerned Students Take a Step Forward) and feel we have a good start toward possible resolutions. Here are the proposed guidelines set up by the Concerned Students group.
What are your thoughts on these guidelines?
elizabeth
A STEP FORWARD
- Immediately bring an outside, neutral, professional mediation team to campus. The team should include Deaf representatives to facilitate discussion between student protestors and the administration.
- Bring an outside, neutral party to investigate the search process. Examples of outside neutral groups could include: Association of Governing Boards and the American Association of University Professors.
- Dr. Jordan and Dr. Fernandes work with Congress to change the charter that defines the Gallaudet Board of Trustees so that the Board will include faculty, staff, students, and alumni representation. The first step in this process should be a letter from Dr. Jordan and Dr. Fernandes to Congress making this request. This letter should be made public to the Gallaudet community.
- Establish terms for the Gallaudet president. At the end of each term, Gallaudet presidents will have a performance evaluation that will determine if re-appointment should occur. This evaluation will be conducted by the newly formed Board of Trustees.
- Change faculty guidelines such that all tenured faculty will be required to take the ASLPI. Gallaudet University will provide interpreters in the class room for any tenured faculty member who does not pass the ASLPI at the Intermediate Plus level, or better. This does not replace the current system of testing non-tenured faculty.
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Bobby is part of the David King team. He is trying to hi-jack the protest by admin instruction, I suppose. Where are the 2 demands of FSSA??
Testing_The_Truth,
The Concerned Students have a right to express their disagreement. What you implied about hi-jacking the protest isn’t appropriate. I’ve also noticed that you’ve been relentlessly trying to impose your values on those who choose to disagree. That’s not helping you and those who support the protest.
Let me make this clear to you: Yes, I am fully supporting the protest and I also support the right to disagree. After all, this is a democracy, not a dictatorship.
The idea proposed by the Concerned Students group is a very good one. But I must stress that implementation is not feasible UNTIL Jane Fernandes resigns. It is supplemented by what we are seeing on the internet (blogs, comments, and open letters). I know I cannot have these guidelines on the table until the demands are met.
Bobby has a right to express his opinion as much as David King and you have. You say that you grew up under communism … a society where no one was allowed to speak out and where the state “thought” and “decided” for you.
Please also see my suggestions to end the stalemate and avoid this problem in the future:
http://www.deafweekly.com/fewideas.htm
Bobby, haven’t you forgotten we have taken many steps not only in 2006, but in 2000, and in between to tell Jordan and the BoT that WE DO NOT WANT JANE FERNANDES!!!
It would only mean hypocrisy if we took a step forward with these guidelines if these weren’t followed right now. Now it is too late for the administration or the board. Resign, Jane, resign!!!
We can conduct the protest and still work on the guidelines for the future. When the new president is appointed, we can propose that these guidelines be adopted.