Comments on: UNC, Take Jane Now, Pretty Please

By: I am truth

I am truth — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:47:39 +0000

“Hopeless Says:
December 1st, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Lisa C.

What I mean is JKF has a great career. She has made great accomplishments. She was the one out of thousands who applied for the job at UNC and got it. Nope, no flawed search as you all complained about when she was appointed pres. at Gally. She got the pres job at Gallaudet fair and square and you all complained about everything under the sun including a flawed search.

Dr. Fernandes is an accomplished educator who moves on in a positive disposition.

So yup Jealousy seems to be the word, if not jealousy then maybe its just plain hate and anger.”

My,my, my…you are re-writing history!

Fact:

JKF did not get the appointment of President of Gallaudet “fair”. Even the BOT members have expressed that in private.

Fact:

JKF is NOT an accomplished scholar. Read Bob Johnson’s paper to really understand that JKF was never/has been anything remotely near a scholar.

Fact:

She was an average administrator.

Fact:

Her style of management made a lot of people dislike her. Examples are really really numerous. She was not a good person to work for…ask the Clerc Center staff.

There are a lot of other facts that you failed to mentioned, including the fact that she has continued to bad mouth the Gallaudet community.

Fact:

Her appointment as Provost was made without merits…IKJ by pass the normal process to appoint her as Provost. Also, JKF was granted tenure without “going thru the normal process. She was granted tenured by a BoT WHO WAS BLIND SIDED BY IKJ . Current BoT members have promised that they will never again be easily swayed.

By the way-you sound like a bitter person ..perhaps you are Janet Prey, or Jane Norman?

Please get the facts straight…and move on with life.

By: Lisa C.

Lisa C. — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:47:17 +0000

David,
University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho…I was trying to refresh my memory…Oh yes, sorry, that’s right…. I remember… Now I remember my friend went on to work with Washington State University after he got laid off from the U of Idaho. Its been long time since I left Washington state.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:39:15 +0000

Well you certainly selected an apt name for yourself, “Hopeless”!

Elizabeth is a blogger, she isn’t obliged to present all sides of a given story if she doesn’t want to. I find her to be eminently fair-minded, but perhaps I’m biased!

Enjoy the beach…

By: Jean Boutcher

Jean Boutcher — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:48:48 +0000

Anonymous in #58:

I beg to differ. Have you heard of a book entitled “Why England Slept?” by the future president John F. Kennedy? England was in trouble because they slept. If we slept or failed to examine and re-examine about Fernandes, we would lose Gallaudet students to Fernandes’s UNCA. Why? Because the strategy plan she was planning to implement at Gallaudet is being transferred to UNCA. Oralists, Cuers, and CIers would attend UNCA instead of Gallaudet because they like Fernanades’ plan. That means that Gallaudet would lose 200, 300 students who have graduated from mainstream schools and who do not like using sign language.

By: anonymous :)

anonymous :) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:14:58 +0000

Um, MZ... apparently you forgot to go through somebody first to determine the worthiness of your topic. Here’s the "guideline": Is Jane Fernandes that important?

By: Hopeless

Hopeless — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:59:25 +0000

*Her first comments were deleted due to the bashing nature. I do not care to continue on this merry go around. MZ*

The beach was wonderful, porpoise and whales just offshore. Life is Good!!

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:09:45 +0000

Hopeless — Is your nickname Hopeless and Why? Can you share this with us? Maybe you don’t have a hope for the future of your own but … angry and bitter toward to the others. Let’s hope for this issue to be resolved here. Respect and Listen each others without negative criticisms. I hope you have a great hopefully holidays –

Hopefully yours, Diane

By: Mishkazena

Mishkazena — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:10:47 +0000

Hopeless, don’t you know that life is too short to be constantly angry? Regular readers are aware that I am sincere with my congratulations. I’m glad for Fernandes as she has many good traits that may be used in better way in a new university. Davila has made tremendous improvements with Gallaudet, which we are deeply appreciative. We all have moved on.

Again, Readers, thank you so much for your support. See, Hopeless, they know me very well.

I really think it’s time for you to let go and move on, too. Please take a hint from Fernandes. Enjoy the beach! Happy Holidays, Hopeless!

By: Karen Mayes

Karen Mayes — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:14:28 +0000

*Chuckling*… some of us are hopeless, harping on the negatives, on the past. We have to remember that history is often more rewritten than not… let past be past, hopefully we all learned something new in our different perspectives (right or wrong) and move on to… greener pastures.

By: A Deaf Pundit

A Deaf Pundit — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:47:26 +0000

Have fun, Hopeless… Hope you STAY on the beaches.