BoT Violates Federal Law?

On Wednesday, October 4, 2006, a rally was held in Fremont, California, in which the Vice President of the National Board of Directors of the Gallaudet University Alumni Association (GUAA), Ms. Alyce Lentz, reported that the Gallaudet Board of Trustees has not apprised the GUAA Board of the provision of Title 20, United States Code, Sec. 4303, and that the GUAA national board has not been allowed to nominate members to the Gallaudet Board of Trustees for any period in recent memory. http://bayareapovongally.blogspot.com/

This constitutes a clear violation of US Federal Law on the part of the Gallaudet Board of Trustees.

Section 4303 of the EDA (The Education of the Deaf Act of 1986, as amended), which is the legislation that governs Gallaudet University, specifies that at least one trustee must be nominated by the Gallaudet University Alumni Association. “B) eighteen other members, all of whom shall be elected by the Board of Trustees and of whom one shall be elected pursuant to regulations of the Board of Trustees, on nomination by the Gallaudet University Alumni Association, for a term of three years.”
http://uscode.house.gov/uscode-cgi/fastweb.exe?getdoc+uscview+t17t20+4379+0++%28Gallaudet%20University%20Alumni%20Association%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20

Apparently this hadn’t been adhered by the BoT.

Alyce Lentz, the Vice-President of the National Board of Directors of the Gallaudet Alumni Association (GUAA) spoke about resolutions recently put forth by the national GUAA Board:

The GUAA Board calls on the Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University to follow the federal Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (as amended), which gives the alumni of Gallaudet and the National Technical Institute of the Deaf (NTID) the right to nominate an alumni member to serve on their respective boards. http://bayareapovongally.blogspot.com/

Hat Tip to Brian Riley.