Faculty members at Gallaudet University reiterated on Monday their lack of confidence in the choice of Jane K. Fernandes as the next president of the college for deaf students, voting overwhelmingly for a resolution that calls for her to be removed or to resign. The vote, which was taken among three-quarters of faculty members eligible to participate, took place three days after police officers ended a blockade of the campus, in Washington, by arresting 133 students who were protesting Ms. Fernandes’s selection (The Chronicle, October 16).

The faculty vote followed a similar resolution last spring, shortly after the university’s board members announced that Ms. Fernandes was their pick to succeed I. King Jordan as president (The Chronicle, May 9). The protests, in which faculty members and alumni have joined students in assailing the presidential-search process and in criticizing Ms. Fernandes as unsuited to the post, began in the spring and resumed this fall. Ms. Fernandes, backed by the board and Mr. Jordan, has said she will not step aside. She is scheduled to be formally installed as president in January.

At Monday’s meeting, 138 of the 168 faculty members present voted for the resolution. Also at the meeting, 131 of them called on the Board of Trustees to convene an emergency session to deal with the crisis, but 106 voted for a resolution expressing no confidence in the board. A resolution asking the trustees to include on the board students, alumni, and faculty and staff members passed unanimously.

Even President Jordan, the hero of a similar protest 18 years ago, came in for criticism. In the most narrowly approved resolution, faculty members voted no confidence in him, 80 to 60.