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One More Thing- JKF’s Future
30 October, 2006, 3:17 pm
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Ryan Commerson confirmed that she still has tenure in the ASL department, regardless of the BoT’s decision. The BoT simply terminated her as president-elect. Her tenure remains. I can’t imagine her trying to teach ASL classes under MJ as chair of the department, can you? What do you think will happen to JK? Will she take her 900 thousand dollars (her reimbursement as stated in contract in event of her termination) and just retire in Aruba? Maybe she’ll go on to work for AGB? Or will she dig in her heels, finagle a transfer to the English department and teach Comparative Literature? Maybe Shirley will give up the Honors Program to JK? Ha, my theories are getting wilder… but what do you guys think? Where will JK end up?


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Does MJ has Phd yet or not. I noticed she only has MA degree level. If so, how can she be a chair without Ph.d Degree???

WIll Jane be able to get back to Provost position?? Image it? Happy Halloween!

Comment by RUby

Let JFK teach ASL at AGB!

Comment by Robert

I think I’d pay good money to see her trying to teach ASL under MJ.

Comment by m

Ryan Commerson was correct that JKF has tenure in the ASL department. President IKJ and Vice President Paul Kelly would come up with something that places her on administrative leave with pay, of course. We need to get rid of them so we could keep JKF under the microscope to understand why she had been very, very oppressive toward the Deaf community and its language, ASL.
Alexander Graham Bell Association cannot accept JKF for her statement on ASL being very much part of Gallaudet. It’s not within their goals to eradicate deafness and sign languages throughout the world.
JKF is ending up in a limbo.

Comment by Carl Schroeder

Where will she end up?? In hell of course! Funny you should ask!

Comment by pleasure smith

I think Jane should teach in the english department. Her love affair with the english language puts shakespearean characters to shame. I believe she will be a very good professor, she just never was one.

Comment by rayni

President of Gallaudet…wait and see. I don’t support it but something was fishy about the language in the BOT statement yesterday. Fishy, I tell ya. They simply terminated her as president-elect. That does not mean they can’t act unilaterally to appoint her as president effective next week. Two different positions. Here’s hoping I’m just being paranoid!

Comment by CyanSquirrel

Oh and change your blog clock back an hour…DST is over :-)

Comment by CyanSquirrel

I wonder if this is a reliable information…someone mentioned jf losing tenure when she contracted with bot as president designate. can’t imagine her willing to demote herself to an academic department especially chaired by someone like MJ. Yikes. MJ will eat her alive. If she still holds tenure, I pray she will respectfully turn in her tenure, grab the severance pay and flee.

Comment by Cy

Carl Schroeder wrote:

“We need to get rid of them (IKJ and Paul Kelly) so we could keep JKF under the microscope to understand why she had been very, very oppressive toward the Deaf community and its language, ASL.”

And why should Jane want to keep herself under your “microscope”? No one should have to apologize for their life experiences and signing background. We oral deaf, hoh and late-deafened adults work with what we are given in life the best we can and move on with our lives.

Comment by hohviolist

I know I’m being idealistic, but I am kind of hoping that she’ll start teaching classes, maybe try something different. She is a very brillinat woman, and she might have been a good professor if she’d tried it.

Comment by Katie Roberts

Hey how about NAD President B. Scoggins be a next President of Gallaudet U?

Comment by Deafman

Isn’t there a vacancy at to lead Clark School right now?

Comment by tentcityuk

She could teach French as her educational background is in French language.

In her interview with Jane Jonas, she expected to be in the “solitary” occupation of translating written French and English documents.

Comment by Icedtea

jkf has no biz teaching ASL, period. Rewrite language and education policy at Gallaudet. Bring ASL back in the forefront. Those fuckers have been burying it alive for years. Buy her off campus, the same for some incompetent teachers.

Comment by MikeS

Hello IamMine!
Wonder if it is possible for you to reach the board of ADARA on this link: http://www.adara.org/pages/board.shtml
Have them whistleblow to the Audisms town and city: ~http://www.oraldeafed.org/schools/index.html~

to press the facts and reasons on the Audism’s newspaper. Will that help to heal our scars?

Comment by Need thy help to heal ourself

Oh lawdy, why I don’t see why JKF has to teach ASL even though she did blew up the messy medias!

I agreed with Carl Schroeder that we need to get rrid of IJK, Paul Kelly, plus I have to add Mercy and Jane Norman, too! I feel that they are trying to terminate and destroy ASL just like Carl’s 1954 (click on 1954) link:

http://carl-schroeder.blogspot.com/2006/10/gallaudet-universitys-administration_30.html#links

I don’t understand why JKF has to teach ASL while she is obviously won’t heal herself by attacking us on the media news! She embarrassed our Deaf Culture with NO RESPECT!

Get rid of all the IJK’s BoT? or contact other BoT who will be able to listen to FSSA’s comments?

What do you think?

Comment by Need thy help to heal ourself

If Jane has to be under MJ, things should be okay. They were friends before the protest. In fact, MJ wrote a recommendation letter for Jane. MJ put Jane there in the first place. MJ supported the protest just to save her face.

Comment by Allen

Whaaahht! JKF, that DOD mom of DOD kids teach ASL?? Me, the DOH mom of DOH kid frustrated with oppressors from my work and my Deaf son’s school. U know why?
Hearing people think I’m stupid like JKF from yesterday local midwest newspaper!
Need scorekeeper from FSSA to count the not enough deaf NOW pls? I agreed with the quote ‘SCARS WON’T HEAL’. JKF should not teach ASL!!!!!

Comment by Champ Audisms City




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