Administrators and School of Nursing faculty have remained tight-lipped on what prompted former Dean Mei Fu’s premature resignation in February, leaving the future of the school’s leadership hanging in uncertainty.

Since late February, 61 faculty members in the nursing school declined to or did not return multiple requests for comment on Fu’s less than two-month tenure or why she resigned. University spokesperson Julia Metjian declined to comment on why Fu resigned and how her exit will affect the nursing school’s operations, deferring to remarks Provost Chris Bracey made about Fu’s resignation at the Faculty Senate meeting in March in which he said he selected Forrest Maltzman, a professor of political science and GW’s former provost, to assist him in the search for an interim dean.

“Faculty are not communicating anything regarding this matter, including me,” one nursing school faculty member said in an email in response to a Hatchet inquiry about Fu’s resignation.

The nursing school, which has ranked among the top 30 bachelor’s and master’s degree nursing programs in the country for years, has remained leaderless for four weeks now with no clear timeline for the selection of an interim or permanent dean.

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