There's more developing news on a story we first reported here on January 2, 2007, the FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has been put under probationary status until June 30, 2008.The accreditation of the six-year doctor of pharmacy degree continues.
The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, which placed the college on probation, said that among the standards found to non-compliant were strategic planning, curriculum evaluation, proof of adequate faculty to meet needs and appropriate financial resources.
In a Jan. 30 memo to the FAMU board of trustees, Interim President Castell Bryant stated, "The accreditation term granted for the Doctor of Pharmacy program extends until June 30, 2008, under Probationary Status, a period of one year, which is less than the customary six-year cycle. This accreditation term reflects ACPE's grave concern for the Doctor of Pharmacy program at the College.
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Pharmacy facing probation
Showdown in O-town
Lewis-v-Bryant, the back story
Castell needs to go IMMEDIATELY !!!!
ReplyDeleteUsher that bitch to the edge of the campus now!!!! Tell her to get her hat and coat and get heck out of dodge!!!!
Go and tell Castell that her stay is long overdue; the liars amongst us; the dumb ones on the board who voted for Thompson and especially Lowe who has done nothing but shield and coverup for Castell's incompetencies.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the lies are beginning to come home to roost.
I am still pissed about that freakin raise and bonus!
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ReplyDeleteCastell needs to go IMMEDIATELY !!!!
Usher that bitch to the edge of the campus now!!!!
Off the "edge" of a 100 ft. cliff would suit me fine right about now...
Here we go again.... This issue is not a Castell issue. It is based on the lack of leadership in the COP for several years and the lack of vision. As a proud graduate of the COP I am not surprised. There has been too much politicking going on in the COP. People who were top notch in the school were moved out of key positions so lackies could be in control. There was a desire to keep some non-AAs out of positions in place of less competent AAs.
ReplyDeleteCurriculum and vision for a school are the responsibility of the Dean. Several of the hbcu COPs are experiencing this same problem because our tactics are outdated. Many pharmacy classes have a computer-based component; FAMU is still old school.
Yes facilities and faculty are a problem. These items can be attributed to the University as a whole. No fundraising going on.
We need to understand that the problems of FAMU are not tied to one individual or a set of individuals. Until FAMUans understand the need to wholeheartedly modernize the campus, bring new ideas forward and new people forward it will be more of the same. Too many people want to focus on our past accomplishments rather than focusing on the present and future needs of the university.
FAMU needs more money from its alumni
FAMU needs more collaboration with industry and foundations
FAMU needs more innovative faculty and administrators
FAMU needs more people willing to work hard and not the hardly working which is so common among many employees.
The COP has had VERY WEAK administrators the last few years. Those good workers who remained were alienated and chastised. There were alot of people twiddling their thumbs waiting for this to happen and alot of people who didn't and don't know what is happening.
Hopefully, Dr. Ammons will bring the fresh new leadership that is required in the COP and across the campus. Hopefully, he will motivate people to want to work for a glorious cause.
The hateful words espoused on this blog at the end of the day do nothing to help FAMU. Are you mad as hell? Then give some money so FAMU can move forward and build facilities, hire distinguished professors and recruit talented students.
Vince/Rufus,
ReplyDeleteGet your head out of the sand. This is very much a Castell issue. The College of Pharmacy staff has been warning her and Debra Austin about this for over a year and half. The accreditation agency spelled it out for Castell in a letter over a year ago. Austin and Castell have refused to act. Instead, Castell went shopping w/ her girl Vivian "I just got tenure (after 25 years)" Hobbs and Liz "lick'em low" McBride.
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ReplyDeleteAnd after her failed antics over the Christmas Holidays to attach this mess to James Ammons is only a sign that she has completely lost control and our institutions integrity.
Yeah Cassie, we know about your phone calls to certain board members that had not committed to voiting for Thompson and your smear campaign against Ammons over the holidays. We also know that just like SACS gave FAMU a clean bill of health in 1999, so did ACPE six years ago.
Fifty-years of greatness from the College of Pharmacy and it all came to a halt under this woman. Shame on anyone for prepetrating that falsehood. No LIE!
Anonymous @ 2/06/2007 12:54 PM,
ReplyDeleteWhere was this passion for Gainous and Humphries?
As I have stated before on this blog the leadership in the COPPS has been God-awful and only concerned about #1. The students have not been priority, which is why incompetent Yes men were put into positions for which they were not qualified. Castell does play a large role in this accredation debacle but Henry Lewis plays a larger role. I know he is not currently dean, but during the long tenure that he was dean he was very ineffective...If you don't believe me just ask some of the faculty members who had the displeasure of working under him.
ReplyDeleteCastell was also responsible for 9/11.
ReplyDeleteShe lied about her association with Osama Bin Laden. In fact she and Bin Laden go back several years to when Bin Laden visited Miami-Dade Community College as an adjunct chemistry professor. She carefully concealed the association just to get the job at FAMU so she could screw it up. But, all is now revealed. See the gory details on www.stupidshityoufindonRN.com
There were no accreditation problems within Pharmacy until Castell began tampering with the school's money and faculty. The experienced men and women who have secured Pharmacy's accreditation for years tried to warn Castell, but she listened to clueless frauds like Vivian Hobbs and Eva Wanton.
ReplyDeleteThis is another Castell-created crisis in the same tradition as the terrible auditor general's report, NSF grant debacle, and enrollment drop.
Castell's incompetence strikes, and strikes, and strikes again!
I can't believe this. Vincent June is still on this blog trying to get people to believe that Humphries and Ammons are responsible for the Pharmacy's accreditation falling apart in 2007!
ReplyDeleteCastell Bryant and her administration refuse to take any responsibility for any of the problems that resulted from her own poor decisions.
Vincent, you have no morals, no credibility, and no clue! You are not convincing anyone.
who is VINCE???
ReplyDeleteam i the only one not in the loop here??
Vince is the VP of Student Affairs, aka Blaine Edwards. Rufus, aka Antawn Merriwether.
ReplyDeletehere's a video of them.
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZNYrndjMA
this is so disgraceful, casthell wont stop till everything good about our beloved FAMU is ripped to shreds. Im so glad this bitch and her den of skuzzy snakes are getting out of here!
ReplyDeleteFAMU is in serious trouble...from its own supporters. It is gonna take a miracle to save it from its biiggest problem, which is you neer-do-well Niggas who think they you know how to best run the school. We have a front row seat at the sinking of the Titanic folks....and its you Niggas fault. Ya'll loved Gainous at first, then ran him outta town. Yall loved Castell at first, then ran her outta town. Now you folks are "loving" Dr. Ammons, give it time, you will hate him eventually too. If youre reading this blog, Dr. ammons, watch out, today's RN cheering squad is tomorrow's lench mob.
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ReplyDeletedon't you have boxes to pack?
Is it any wonder that some people will never take us seriously no matter how much we achieve academically? It is not only important that we achieve, we must maintain a high standard so that young black men and women can see that lasting success is possible. The complete waste of opportunities at the Law School and elsewhere is self-destructive and is not a good example for our young people.
ReplyDeleteLeadership begins at the very top and works it's way down from there. If Administration of the university is fair, open, innovative, constructive, and believe we can be better then the VP, the Deans, and the Directors will take on the same behavior. But if the Administration is deceitful, chastising, incompetent, punitive than so goes the VPs, the Deans, and the Directors.
ReplyDeleteThe Administration sets the tone of the culture and as of let the culture of creativity and innovation has been blocked by fear and cronyism running rampant.
It's the natural consequence of interim leaders that get caught up in the power and find it difficult to let it go.
Good decisions are delayed because people are afraid to make mistakes. Long-Term strategic planning under an interim president or in Castell’s words, president in the interim, is an oxymoron.
No strategic plans presented by any business unit were taken serious by this administration and that’s a fact. They had agenda’s and if you were in the “in circle” you were able to do what ever the hell you wanted. Point-Blank! Unchallenged!
Hey some of yall are real stupid to be blaming Hump for this. If we have not been rasing money Castell. The Chairman of the BOT Dr. Corbin halted any work that Gainous was doing effective Sept 28, 2004 then Castell halted everything fundraising planning etc...Lewis was battling Gainous for issues regarding salaries of faculty and more faculty...at best this issue began with Gainous and was patently ignored by Castell. You guys who keep singing Castell's praises should go to hell.
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ReplyDeleteI keep hearing "Give money to FAMU" . Alumni need to give money to FAMU..BLAH BLAH BLAH...
They can't even account for the money that DOES come to FAMU.. I'd do much better giving my money to a FAMUAN.. than directly to FAMU...
Don't believe me? Ask some of the students that were supposed to receive scholarships from their respective alumni chapters back home...
If I give more money to FAMU is that going towards paying the TA's that are about to get evicted...it IS well past the 1st of the month...
Better yet.. there are more than a few people who work in Lee Hall that bring home over 150,000 a year.. maybe we should pass the collection plate their way...
palm beach post has some interesting words for what is wrong at famu
ReplyDeletehttp://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2007/02/05/a10a_famuprez_edit_0205.html
http://www.flbog.org/newsclips/pdf/
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go here and scroll to famu's section
going to have to stitch together, my apologies. i think the board owes castell a bit more than the usual it is all her fault. this problem has been going on for many years during humphries tenure. she had a thankless job. meanwhile humphries still is held high in the sky!
ReplyDeleteto make myself clear. go to the www.flbog.org site. scroll down and click on news clips of the state university system. when the page opens click on feb. 5. when that page opens go to the famu section and read article from palm beach post.
ReplyDeleteThe Palm Beach Post is not a credible source on FAMU matters. As a matter of fact, no other news organization in Florida subcribes to their "head in the sand/blame Humphries" line of thinking.
ReplyDeleteIt was Castell's bright idea to divert the COPPS' construction planning money and use it to pay basic bills. The COPPS interim dean and facutly warned her against this as they had been warned that it would affect their accreditation. Castell,stubbornly, ignored their cries, now she stands shame faced and is left to do a two step.
The question remains what other damage has she caused in her two years at the wheel?
So we should be thankful for the mess castell has caused. Next someone on this board will be telling us that slavery made us much stronger, wiser and brighter.
ReplyDeletenot credible....well how about the st. pete times then
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/30/
State/Financial_turmoil_rac.shtml
need to stitch the two together
hump and ammons new the house was on fire....why did he retire before a new president was named? he knew the audit was coming along with ammons!
ReplyDeletehttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/
mi_m0DXK/is_1_18/ai_72607459
need to stitch again
check out this one about humphries and the law school....
ReplyDeleteKeep up the 'tough love' to save FAMU from itself
A million-dollar donor endowed a chair at Florida A&M University's law school. Then he filled the teaching position, at a $100,000 salary plus $25,000 worth of benefits, with himself. That is egregious on its face.
That Kentucky lawyer Shirley Cunningham rarely appeared on campus is a slap at FAMU students and faculty, not to mention taxpayers who matched the gift with $750,000 from the state. Mr. Cunningham's chair was so cushy, The St. Petersburg Times reported, that it involved no teaching or research. Yet no work has been produced on the half-dozen "projects" he agreed to perform instead.
"Professor" Cunningham, whom interim President Castell Bryant correctly removed from FAMU's payroll, was a student at Tennessee State University when he met then-TSU President Frederick Humphries. Later, as FAMU president, says law school Dean Percy Luney Jr., Dr. Humphries dictated, over Dean Luney's objections, the terms of Mr. Cunningham's 2003 contract. Dean Luney says he followed similar orders under Dr. Humphries' successor, Fred Gainous. Dr. Humphries denies any quid pro quo. Dr. Gainous says the arrangement was in place when he arrived. That he didn't correct it was one reason the FAMU board of trustees fired him last year.
The latest of FAMU's financial problems that keep coming to light is another test of Dr. Bryant's ability and whether the state will continue to let the fiascoes fester at what has been among the premier historically African-American campuses. The bucks, and excuses, seem to have stopped with Dr. Bryant, who has placed Dean Luney on leave. But the revelations beg the question of whether similar or worse deals exist in other departments.
Early findings of a payroll audit, for example, flagged Mr. Cunningham. Dr. Bryant ordered it after she was hired in December and couldn't get even a basic financial report. After March's independent report, which showed that FAMU had spent at least $51 million more than budgeted yet paid staff $19 million less in salaries than it should have, Dr. Bryant ordered a spending freeze pending results of the payroll audit, on which she plans to report at the June 30 trustees meeting.
A series of scathing state audits dating to 2001 have shown that financial mismanagement issues aren't new. The audits have revealed inadequate controls and procedures, a wide range of suspect business practices and millions in spending that FAMU couldn't account for. In 2003, failure to report required data caused state Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher to withhold the paychecks of Dr. Gainous and other administrators. His agency still is investigating several FAMU departments for fraud and waste of public money.
Dr. Bryant has pledged to find and address all of FAMU's problems. She acknowledged when she took the job that the future of the 117-year-old, 13,000-student, former Time magazine and Princeton Review College of the Year is on the line. But that had been clear for several years, and still the state held back. If Gov. Bush, state legislators and the Board of Governors have to take more drastic, hands-on steps to save FAMU, such action should not come until FAMU gets all the help that Dr. Bryant needs.
lets just face it theres going to be some trash that comes out of each leaving president, its factual evidence, when castell leave even more shits going to come to light, and God forbid the time comes when Ammons decides that he has fix FAMU retires and stuffs comes out to the light on him, all we do is pray that we do have the right people comming to fix FAMU.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 11:22pm sounds like the Dr. Eva C Wanton. Who else would write some bull shit like that. Is it because Humphries did not give you what you wanted? You should be sleeping cause you are still kissing ass for a buck
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ReplyDeleteyou didnt know that dr. wanton doesnt have t kiss ass...Cassy is her ace boonCOON and soror. She doesnt have to get down like that.
Quietly.. it's not ass she's kissing.....
ReplyDelete(that's the worst kept secret on the Hill.. u didn't know?)
Diverting money slated for one project to pay for bills. That's the exact reason Morris Brown is where it is now. And we were a 7-6 vote away from the same fate.
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ReplyDeleteThat is not why Morris Brown is in trouble. They used federal financial aid dollars that was supposed to go to students to pay bills.
Quit exaggerating. The stuff that Castell and crew has done has been awful and devastating to our campus, but there is no need to lie on them. There is enough dirty truth.
The biggest isssue in COP is curriculum outdated, lack of strategic plan and vision, more faculty and more facilities. The first two are issues of the COP, the latter are issues for the President and Provost.
ReplyDeleteThere is no unity in the COP, no collective work and no responsibility. There is a lack of leadership, lack of knowledge, lack of connections and influence in the COP. Those of us in pharmacy circles have been discussing these issues for years prior to Castell.
We can blame Castell for not cleaning it up and putting a credible dean in place; but remember you folks did not want a interim president hiring deans. What had started years before just continued to unravel. It does not take long for poor leadership to sink a ship. 70% of the blame belogs to the COP. 30% to the current administration for not being able to get it back on track with good solid leadership.
It's in the same vein as Morris Brown. Using money for one thing to pay for another. It's madness any way you slice it.
ReplyDeleteThe interim administration ignored the Pharmacy faculty's cries for help. Castell understood her destructive actions would jeopardize the school's accreditation, but refused admit she was wrong.
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ReplyDeleteQuietly.. it's not ass she's kissing.....
(that's the worst kept secret on the Hill.. u didn't know?)
Yep. In an interview for a position on the hill, a partner of mine (female) was told by the female interviewers that she would be hired for how her clothes fit her, not for what she knows.
Please tell me that is a rumor being put out by a select few....
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ReplyDeletehey, that's my line
I'm NOT a big supporter of any of those folks at the helm of FAMU, BUT, do you really need to discuss what and whose they are kissing on this Board?! Dr. Ammons is coming back. Dr. Bryant is out! Many of those associated with her will be gone soon! Don't continue to spread false rumors about those people that will be public like this. (sounds like the tabloids about Oprah and Gail over and over and over again)
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