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Gallaudet dumps another woman president.(Gallaudet University, Jane Fernandes )(Brief article)
After months of protests by students, staff and alums that shut down the campus, the Gallaudet University DC board of trustees abandoned its choice of Jane Fernandes as its next president of the nation's top school for the deaf.
The board announced in late October that "with much regret and pain," it would terminate Fernandes' contract. Amid the protests and anger at Fernandes' appointment, the board noted that it was acting "in the best interests of the university." Since the school receives more than 70% of its funding from the federal government, U.S. taxpayers are funding the board's incompetence.
This marks the second time that protesters have forced out a woman president. Eighteen years ago, demonstrators removed then-president Dr. Elizabeth Zinser after just five days in office.
In an interview, Fernandes said that gender played a role in the controversy. "I don't think it's by accident that this happened to a woman," she said, recalling Zinser's fate. "I'm sure that if it were a deaf man, and if ...
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