It seems that things have been worked out between Interim Law Dean James Douglas and the Interim President. We reported earlier that Mr. Douglas was demanding a 5% salary increase to stay beyond the terms of his current contract and that the interim president was balking. See: Crisis at Law School
We now understand that Mr. Douglas and Castell have settled on a 2.5% raise which will keep the Interim Dean on board atleast through January .
Thank you Mr. Douglas for being the bigger person.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness. The faculty need the leadership of Dean Douglas particularly since there is a void of leadership at senior levels. Watch out lazy professors a new day is here.
ReplyDeleteThis is good news, especially that the Law school crisis is on the front burner. If Dean Douglas isn't staying we must pray that a permanent solution happens between now and January.
ReplyDeleteAppropriations and Contributions and other funds WILL NOT FLOW until there is a permanent Dean..and you also know that this plays into the hands of those who have "other plans" for the Law School Building, and its inhabitants.
Get a permanent Dean !!!
"they" have "other plans" for our law school and we just recently got it back...oh my lanta!
ReplyDeleteUCF Law or FAMU Law? Sad thing is that some faculty members and students would prefer the former.
ReplyDeleteFirst, the ABA will grant full accreditation to FAMU. The person who did the majority of the work necessary for full accreditation is still on staff at the law school as a Senior Faculty. Former dean Luney spent most of his time socializing on the golf course and provided very little leadership to the faculty and staff. Then there's the grand DIVA of the law school who has questionable academic credentials and wrecks havoc among the students and faculty. She's a bit smug because she was tenured by the former dean (who was once her boss at NCCU). She has never written a scholarly paper worth reading (one article cites JET magazine- go figure!)and she continues to lecture from her 1990's Nova law outlines. Please do your research before touting the praises of the current Interim Dean, understand that he's only in Florida until his Texas problem blows over (He was escorted off of the TSU campus by law enforcement).
ReplyDeleteDamn, TxSU is a hot "bed" for law enforcement, criminal behavior, and indictments.
ReplyDeleteDo we really want to recruit staff/faculty from there?
Wait a minute, didn't our prezy bring this dude to FAMU?
What's up with that?
Again, Madam President is merely mitigating all of the damage caused by former President Humphrey. Unbeknownst to many, the interim dean was at the ground floor of the law school. At Humphrey's request and guidance, Douglas completed all of the necessary work to get the law school opened (conducted surveys, compiled demographic data, etc). Just months before its opening Luney came in as a "dark horse" and took the job as dean. This choice of law dean surprised law faculty all over the country who were asked to assist in the re-establishment of FAMU law because the former dean has a reputation of screwing things up. Since there ain't no folks beating down the door to become the dean of FAMU Law, so it stands to reason that the interim dean was probably the best choice to mind the chicken coop until a permanent one is found.
ReplyDeleteWhat's up with the FAMU law review?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 7:58 said, What's up with the FAMU law review? Pray tell ... The "Senior Faculty/Founding Faculty" advisor cited Jet Magazine in one of her own articles, and has failed to demonstrate her capacity to properly discuss issues with sound legal authority. Her published articles amount to inexcusable sophomoric chit chat. Wouldn't you think that it would have been academically dishonest to publish a law review under her guidance?
ReplyDeleteAn addendum to the credentials of one of the "Senior Faculty/Founding Faculty" of the law school: The law school website says that one of the "esteemed" taught at University of Beijing. Talk about stretching the facts! It's a little farfetched. Well for a few thousand dollars, you, too, can participate in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation's "People to People Ambassador's Program" (headed by Eisenhower's granddaughterm Mary). It's a simple process: You are "invited to complete and submit your registration and deposit to secure your position among the delegation." However, be fair warned though that "space is limited and registrations will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis." For $3,497.00 the "esteemed" Founding Faculty member (and you, too) can "participate" in this October's (2006) Professional Delegation to The People’s Republic of China.
ReplyDeleteDang! What did this faculty member do to motivate anonymous at 1221 and 932 to take the time to do this research?
ReplyDeleteNothing! Student assessments, peer reviews, and the "esteemed's" classroom ramblings are enuf said. Read the law school website for yourself. It's obviously full of fluff and aggrandizement. Anonymous @ 1:18 P.M., are you the referenced esteemed Senior Founding Faculty? Shouldn't you be researching for a legal scholary work that is worth publishing?
ReplyDeleteI tried to pull up a bio but nothing comes up when you click on the website.
ReplyDeleteI read the bios of the Founding Faculty in the Fl Bar Journal a few years back. It was on the law website. I guess the removal is all part of the cleanup. Oh my! "The Great Prop Up Conspiracy" has finally been exposed!
ReplyDeleteYou must have received a bad grade in the professor's class.
ReplyDeletewhat's up with the deans search?
ReplyDeleteThe update on the law school is that the situation is shaky shaky shaky. Look at the comments posted on this blog by the students. We need the strong leadership the interim dean has provided so the founding faculty don't tear this school apart.
ReplyDeleteWhat? Strong leadership by Douglas? Ha! How 'bout he brought a sista-girl w/ him from Thurgood Marshall and made her a full professor! Poof! Just like that she went from the Writing Clinic to FULL PROFESSOR! No experience. Definitely no articles. She just had the hook up (or the "right stuff") like one of the esteemed Founding Faculty- check out Anon @ 11:48, 4:40. She was "Miss Torts" yet failed to teach the class in the area of Strict Liability. What if Willie Gary knew nothing about Strict Liability? Her inadequate use of the English language is much to be desired. Students complained to the Interim Dean about the number of GRAMMATICAL ERRORS (like subject verb agreement) on her tests, but to no avail. She is even rumored to have never passed the Texas (or any state's) bar. Read Thurgood Marshall's website and you'll see that she, too is all fluff/aggrandizement like the esteemed Founding Faculty outed by Anon @ 12:21. Agreed, the Founding Faculty has "one bad apple" but the Interim Dean is not what FAMU needs. Enough already! It's high time that all of the "pillow talkin'" baby mamas, private dancers, paramours, and illicit lovers of the deans who are on the FAMU law faculty stop masquerading as law professors and STEP! It's a disservice to the next generation of female lawyers.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of law faculty. Seems as if the former dean both used the AKA Paper Bag Test as the criteria for employment. You tellin' me there aren't any chocolate colored sisters qualified to teach at FAMU COL? Faculty meeting looks like an AKA soiree.
ReplyDeleteSounds you are a lapdog for one of the founding faculty. They are the problem. Teaching classes they are not qualified to teach, refusing to support the interim dean, holding the hiring process hostage. Don't believe any lies spread about new faculty.
ReplyDeleteyes, the original faculty are the problem. they don't keep office hours.
ReplyDeleteDysfunctional faculty, illicit lovers, baby mamas, grand divas, far fetched credentials? What is going on in Orlando? Looks like C & C should clean up down there w/ an axe & start over from scratch.
ReplyDeleteThey don't keep office hours? UFF or tenure can't protect your job when you don't keep office hours, absent from class or tardy.
ReplyDeleteIt has protected two founding faculty for quite a long time.
ReplyDeleteThe St. Petersburg times article today noted:
ReplyDelete"A major part of changing the culture at the university (FAMU) involves radically changing the rarely discussed incompetence caused by the tradition of cronyism and protectiveness that plagues the culture at many historically black colleges. Many of FAMU's current problems have their roots in past administrations, whose presidents and their appointees hired their friends and acquaintances of friends rather than hiring the best person for the jobs. To add insult to injury, many of those involved in this practice defend their incompetent hires or remain silent until irreparable harm has been done."
Are you saying that this is also the culture happening down at the law school? How did that happen? How could the former dean/interim dean screw up in so little time? The Cleanup Woman (CVB) needs to come down there with the axe!
The law school is too valuable to lose! All those hooting for UCF on the COL faculty, sorry but FAMU ain't going nowhere. Who is gonna take on that political A-bomb? The governor? The Fla. legislature? The national outcry among the powerful and connected FAMU alumni & would reach D.C., Congress & the White House (Kendrick Meek as in the Black Caucus Kendrick Meek is a FAMU baby (raised at FAMU) & alumni). As shown by the quality of the dean applicant pool FAMU is not your typical "Po Dunkin" HBCU. You are sadly mistaken, in Florida awesome students and faculty CHOSE FAMU. You better ask somebody. You can start with the former dean. Don't mess over FAMU. Or you'll be sorry. A further word to the "UCF faculty"- Watch your mouth because you might be speaking to Jeb Bush's neighbor, Bob Graham's godchild, or Kendrick Meek's cousin.
Dang Anon @ 2:05 PM brevity, please? To the "UCF faction at the law school: DON'T GET IT TWISTED, FAMU COL WILL REMAIN W/FAMU. Who's stupid idea was that?
ReplyDeleteDid the SPT really say FAMU's faculty was incompetent b/c of the entrenched tradition of cronyism and protectiveness? God knows it happens at the FAMU COL among the original faculty. Look at the post on Prof. Dowd's blog 13th juror about a senior faculty's Find Law article on Hurricane Katrina that has been posted all over the law school & all over the Internet. Now you tell me Why is this "original" still here teaching?! This is what SOMEONE ELSE said about the senior faculty at FAMU COL. Hopefully, the next Dean will man-up and put an end to this farce.
ReplyDeleteDid Professor Langston pay attention in her Jurisprudence classes? Forgot I.R.A.C.? Disregarded basic critical analysis from high school-explandums and explanans, hypotheses and theorems, corollaries and conclusions? As a poor attempt at affording the reader a synoptic view of a well established legal defense, Langston's article lacks depth and is void of any analytical intention. The theoretical justification for Langston's argument rests on very simple assumptions. Under any conception of necessity (justification per LA law), the defense is available when the legislature says so. The LA statute obviously says so. End of story. Langston never articulates sound reasons for her position and resorts to incogitant verbosity. There was no need for Langston to go on and on with the prolonged discourse: "We have watched, night after night ... footage of the plight of the citizens in New Orleans." Yada, yada, yada. Blah, blah, blah. Langston could have even discussed the possibility of the broad equitable discretion of the LA courts to tailor injunctive relief for necessity (justification), irrespective of whether there is a legal defense of necessity (justification)in any LA statute. Law professors like Langston should not stoop to spinning platitudes and refrain from regurgitating the banal remarks spoken by the bobbleheads on CNN and Fox News. In order to initiate and facilitate rational academic discussions, one must engage in scholarship that is thoroughly researched. Langston fails to demonstrate her capacity to properly discuss issues with sound legal authority. Langston's article is inexcusable sophomoric chit chat. It is academically dishonest.
Amen!