Recruiting a new OSD director is not possible on the ODE timeline
February 8, 2007
In 1998, I was on the OSD interview committee established with the purpose of recruiting a new director. Three out of the 10 committee members were deaf. Jane Mulholland was on that committee as well and was, at the time, an ODE executive.
We interviewed several people for over six months. None of them accurately answered ODE’s questions and/or were qualified under ODE’s guidelines. At the end of that time period, we recommended Jane Mulholland as a fitting candidate because she was highly qualified and met our high expectations of what an OSD director should be. Jane got the job and did a great service to us as the OSD director.
I read the process and timelines ODE set for recruiting a replacement for Ms. Mulholland’s previous position. What a joke! I can’t believe that ODE thinks they can find a better OSD director in such a short amount of time. That is impossible! They will be hard pressed to find any highly qualified individual who would be interested in that director position because the income is sadly un-equivalent to the job’s requirements and they also may not want to be on the receiving end of ODE’s “investigations.†As well as the fact that ODE’s administration staff lack any knowledge of deaf culture, thus adding to the replacement’s job description.
In my opinion, the only way to quickly and sufficiently meet ODE’s timeline: Reinstate Jane Mulholland as OSD director.
Margi Morgan, Salem