Purdue Northwest faculty vote no confidence in the chancellor of mock Asian language
The faculty and staff of Purdue Northwest have cast an overwhelming vote of no-confidence in Chancellor Thomas Keon’s leadership.
The chancellor had been asked to step down After a video of him, either the faculty senate of the PNW Chapter of the American Association of University Professors will respond. doing a mock impersonation The popularity of Asian languages at commencement became viral.
After Jim Dedelow’s speech on commencement, Keon made the controversial comment Dec. 10, when he spoke about creating a mock-language to entertain his granddaughter.
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After walking up to the podium, Keon said, “Well, all I can say is” before speaking gibberish. He then said, “That’s sort of my Asian version of his (inaudible).”
In a public apology, Keon explained that the incident did not represent “my personal or our institutional values.”
Thomas Roach is the chair of PNW’s faculty senate. initiated the vote on Monday after Keon’s non-response to calls for his resignation.
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Roach sent anonymous ballots to roughly 238 members of the university’s staff and faculty and gave them until 11 p.m. on Tuesday to respond.
The vote resulted in 87 percent of the 155 respondents casting a vote of no-confidence in Keon’s leadership.
“The 135 no-confidence votes represent more than half of all of those who received a ballot,” Roach was quoted as saying. “In other words, if everyone who didn’t vote voted confidence, he still would have lost the vote. This is as close to unanimous as it’s going to get, I think.”
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According to Roach, members of Keon’s staff were able to vote, noting that of the 20 votes of confidence, “at least half of those are directly working with him.” Roach anticipates Keon will resign in light of the results. However, if he doesn’t, He noted that the Board of Trustees should fire him.
Despite PNW faculty’s continued push for Keon’s resignation, Purdue’s Board of Trustees have not commented on the subject further after issuing a statement indicating that they accepted the apology.
“Our Board of Trustees, which oversees the entire Purdue system, including our regional campuses of Purdue Fort Wayne and Purdue Northwest, when made aware of the insensitive and unacceptable remarks made by Chancellor Keon at a Dec. 10 commencement ceremony, asked for an immediate apology,” Purdue University spokesman Tim Doty told the Post-Tribune.
“Chancellor Keon has provided that apology and his plan to ensure this does not happen again, which you have already seen. Trustees have accepted the apology.”
A Change.org petition Students signed a petition demanding Keon’s resignation.