Deaf Thugs 1, Galludet 0

It seems that the chronic thuggery and protests at Galludet were successful in getting a deaf woman revoked from her position of President of the University. Despite the fact that Jane Fernandez has been signing longer than most of her students have been alive, she was still considered “not deaf enough,” because she was a lip reader when she was a kid. Despite the fact that she is a woman, the Galludet thugs insisted on her firing because she was not “diverse enough.”

To parents of deaf children- If you want to rob your handicapped child of the best opportunity to earn a degree, send him or her to the leftist Washington DC campus of Galludet. They will get a degree in whining and skipping class, and only half of the students will ever receive a diploma.

From NBC4 here:

WASHINGTON — The board of trustees of the nation’s premier school for the deaf voted Sunday to revoke the appointment of the incoming president, Jane Fernandes, who had been the subject of weeks of protests that at times shut down the campus.

In a statement posted on the university’s Web site, Fernandes said she heard the board’s decision with “deep regret.”

Protesters had said that Fernandes, 50, was a divisive and ineffective leader as provost and that she was not the best person to address problems with diversity, declining enrollments and low graduation rates.

The demonstrators took over academic and administrative buildings this month, blocked campus entrances and forced the cancellation of classes. More than 100 protesters were arrested.

Fernandes, who has been deaf since birth, had refused to resign, saying it would hurt the university to allow protests to determine the school’s leadership. She has said that some people do not consider her “deaf enough” to be president because she didn’t learn to use American Sign Language until she was in her 20s and relied on lip-reading through much of her education.

Some students carried cases of beer across campus and shared in celebration with their professors.

Gallaudet, which receives more than $100 million in funding annually from the federal government, was rated “ineffective” this year by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. The report cited problems with the school’s retention of students and its graduation rate; persistently fewer than 50 percent of undergraduates get their diploma.