“Not Deaf Enough”

The faculty vote down Gallaudet’s new president, Jane Fernandes. Money quote:

Fernandes, 49, said she is caught in a cultural debate. "There’s a kind of perfect deaf person," said Fernandes, who described that as someone who is born deaf to deaf parents, learns ASL at home, attends deaf schools, marries a deaf person and has deaf children. "People like that will remain the core of the university."
Fernandes is married to a retired Gallaudet professor who can hear. So can the couple’s two children. Some people who were deaf at birth can learn to speak through intensive speech therapy.

First, a student uprising. Then a faculty revolt. Identity politics is clearly far from over.