In an email to FAMU alumni and supporters, FAMU NAA President Alvin Bryant strongly encouraged FAMUANS to call on state officials including legislators, the Board of Governors, and Florida Governor Charlie Crist to make changes to the FAMU BOT.Specifically, the letter called on alumni to lobby members of the Florida Senate Committee on Ethics & Elections and the Senate Committee on Higher Education to not confirm Trustees Challis Lowe and Jesse Tyson.
Additionaly, Bryant's email called for alumni to "petition the Governor and other elected officials to ask for the resignations of trustees Laura Branker, W. George Allen, Leerie Jenkins, and Regina Benjamin.
Also see: Snakes among us!
Lowe and others must go
Great Story.. I saw your post on HBCUHighlights.com Do you have any other stories on there.
ReplyDeleteI'm a FAMU graduate and I do dearly love the school, but (and I know I'll hear from my peeps on this one), but if there are no differing views from various board members, how does rubber-stamping serve the good of the university? That's exactly what has been happening since Challis has been chair. The board, in many respects, has given Lowe Carte Blanche to do whatever she wanted to do. I remember when the board presidency changed hands--from Corbin to Lowe--and many folk were glad to see Corbin go, including me, but what we got instead was worse than what was there.Believe me when I tell you that I ain' no fan of Challis and the rest of the gang of thieves who voted against Ammons becoming the next president, but I am still of the opinion that a healthy--healthy, not foul and nasty--board gives cause to a diverse set of perspectives and opinions. I don't believe, of course, that all of this in-fighting is good for the university, but every now and then, an opion different from one's own should be heard. For the record, I certainly wanted Ammons to be selected, not the Thompson woman.(Okay, so let me have it).
ReplyDeleteI support the ouster of Lowe, Jenkins, Allen, Braenker and Tyson. However, Benjamin is not in any position to harm the University because she misses too many of the Board meetings. I believe that Lowe wil not be confirmed by the Senate because many of us have been working on her demise for a long time. Tyson should be out as soon as Crist names Parks as his nominee for the Tyson slot. Jenkins is in seroius trouble so I suspect he will soon be resigning and Laura will be left out to dry as a lame-duck leftover from the Bush years.
ReplyDeletethere is dissenting opinion, then there is destruction of the university. That is what was happening with this board with Lowe. No one is saying the board has to always agree, but it is the actions of Lowe, Allen etc that have led FAMU into the clusterfuck that she is in today. That's why they have got to go.
ReplyDeletethe drama continues...famu is a laughing stock! famu fights with each other, while others raise hundreds of millions a dollars a year....famu is going down....
ReplyDeleteThey GOTTA GO! GET TO STEPPIN!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCrist is going to nominate Daryl Parks to be on the BOT? Wow. Talk about a nice nomination!
ReplyDeletewould you post the letter if you have so people can contact the phone numbers on the list.
ReplyDeletehe needs to call for more members and more money. Here we go again, FAMU-NAA needs to now begin to work more on its own affairs.
ReplyDeleteIt's cool to provide a strong branch of attention to the workings of the school and now to the BOT, the school needs the support of FAMU-NAA in this regard.
But come on man. FAMU-NAA's contributions to the university, its membership, and its programing is absolutely dismal.
Damn.
If FAMU did not listen to the NAA, what exactly would the NAA be able to do about it?
ReplyDeleteStop giving donations? Forgo homecoming? The NAA has no power.
I strong disagree with 8:28 AM. The NAA has much power in advancing the agenda of the University. Power is not only in giving to the school. FAMU is a public institution receiving state, federal and private funds. Politicans are going to listen to its constituents over any interim administration or want-to-be's. You must realize that NAA members are voters and have much power in numbers to influence the future of the University. It would be an idea situation for the alumni to be on the same page with the school's administrators, but look who we are dealing with: Castell, Altha and Lizzie. They collectively do not have a clue on how to advise or run FAMU.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...I support the ouster of Lowe, Jenkins, Allen, Braenker and Tyson. However, Benjamin is not in any position to harm the University because she misses too many of the Board meetings.
ReplyDelete2/28/2007 4:20 PM
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This is the harm! Not in attendance and serving as chair of the budget and finance committee and under her leadership the university has run two consecutive double digit deficits.
Please tell me you see this as harmful to the existence of FAMU.
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ReplyDeletethe drama continues...famu is a laughing stock! famu fights with each other, while others raise hundreds of millions a dollars a year....famu is going down....
2/28/2007 5:36 PM
Word on the street is that your momma goes down also...
LOL! @ 6:54PM
ReplyDelete6:54, you didn't have to go there. Let's try and stick with the issues of the University and keep the debris in the street, where, word on the street, belongs.
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