There are two sides to each legislature. While State Senator Evelyn Lynn and a few of her colleagues in the Florida Senate wanted to shift the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering budget from FAMU to FSU, her colleagues in the House seem to be balking at the idea.Late yesterday afternoon, House Policy & Budget Council Chair Rep. Ray Sansom says he favors FAMU's efforts to maintain of control the budget.
Ammons taught Sansom
It seems, imcomming FAMU president James Ammons is a longtime friend and former political science professor of Sansom's at the University of Central Florida.
''After I took his class, I changed my major to political science because I really enjoyed his class,'' said Sansom. ''He's a great guy and he's going to be a wonderful leader for FAMU. He will build at FAMU at the level we all want to see them get to.''
Trustee pass resolution on E-School
E-fix would do more harm than good
Castell wanted to give it all away
Now what? All you fools talking about white men. Now what? As I've posted before, some "people" actually have pretty good sense. Has nothing to do with color.
ReplyDeleteWe need to worry about getting Senator Lynn out of office. She is an enemy of the great institution. Our Voulsia County alumni need to organize to see her to the door!
ReplyDeleteFAMU doesn't have a problem with all whites. FAMU only has a problem with people who don't understand the concept of racial equality and cooperation.
ReplyDeleteThat's why FAMUans are up in arms against the FSU supporters who are trying to strong arm FAMU out of the E-School partnership with the same Jim Crow tactics that were used to steal the law school.
FAMU supporters understand that despite FSU's efforts, there are plenty of whites in Florida who understand the meaning of integration. That why FAMUans have been lobbying people like Rep. Ray Sansom. Sansom is a good man who has looked at the facts. He understands that FAMU's had good audits up to 2004 and that Dr. James Ammons has a strong financial management record that proves he can restore good audits to the university.
Thank you Mr. Sansom for looking at the facts and ignoring the racial stereotypes FAMU's opponents are trying to use to justify taking the E-School.
Hot dog! Ammons has an "ace" in the hole!
ReplyDeleteHe's not really white, brother. He's one of us. Still, the fight's not over until we have a FAMU college of engineering. Let's end our relationship with FSU.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...We need to worry about getting Senator Lynn out of office. She is an enemy of the great institution. Our Voulsia County alumni need to organize to see her to the door! 4/11/2007 8:53 AM
ReplyDeleteAs well as getting Sen. King (R) of Jacksonville out. If anyone can allow TK to lead them by the nose and ruin a good career as a public servant should be gone as well.
No politician should be that easily corrupted by an individual.
Read today's FAMUAN
ReplyDeletegod is good all the time and all the time god is good! God is with FAMU!
ReplyDeleteI am told that this engineering thing is not over. FSU would like to walk from it. They claim that they have been trying to work with FAMU for years but that we are not cooperative. Some of their alumni have told me that they want to take their faculty, give the budget and building to us. Is this desirable? Does FAMU really want its own engineering college, or do we prefer to have a partnership with FSU, however much we dislike them?
ReplyDeletewhy not have our own...we can do it!
ReplyDelete9:25--don't be so quick with that "ace in the hole" bit yet. Nothing's a done deal just yet. Be cool.
ReplyDeleteEverybody's pinning their hopes on one single man. I hope, for the sake of everyone who believes that Dr. Ammons is capable of walking on water, that he delivers when he get here.
ReplyDeleteGive the man a chance. He's competent. Only a racist doesn't give a competent black man a chance. If Ammons cannnot deliver -- solve the budget crisis, keep the COE, get our law school acredited, keep out graduate programs, etc. -- I will be the first support hiring someone new to take over and subjecting FAMU to new limitations. But don't limit our ability to succeed before we have even had a chance to try!!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why folks think FAMU can't run an Engineering School. We never lost any other programs. Programs were taken from us. We are just as educated as those folks on the other side of the tracks.
ReplyDeleteFSU supporters are racking T.K. over the coals for fumbling the E-School takeover. Many are questioning his ability to lead!
ReplyDeletehttp://floridastate.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1085&tid=92910367&mid=92910367&sid=1061&style=2
Some Seminoles are drumming up a war party to scalp their own president. The following quotes come from FSU's warchant.com (under "Florida State Academics):
ReplyDelete"TK better have an ace in the hole in response to this one, or he gets a big fat "F" so far in area that is supposed to be his strength, politics."
"FSU failed again with lots of political power to try and make an even split and fix this. We need an ambitious and smart admin."
"If TK wants any kind of legacy, it would be getting us a separate CoE (not taking over the joint one, which it appears he may be trying), getting our CoM to research, getting us the $500 fee and actually setting FSU in motion to reach AAU status, instead of talking about it like it's inevitable with our status quo. Unfortunately, I don't think TK is the person to get any of this done."
Here's some more from warchant.com about the letter FSU provost Larry Abele just wrote to the Tallahassee Democrat:
ReplyDelete"Why in the world is this letter being made available now? Am I correct that FAMU was able to organize an alumni letter writing campaign, its future president, a blog, multiple representatives, several newspapers while FSU manages destroy the matter with a ridiculous off-the-cuff quote from TK and our only support has been a single letter from the FSU provost a week too late.
I hope TK has been enjoying spring football practive. We have the worst administration imaginable.
I'm about to give up."
The following warchant.com quote is the wildest one of the day!
ReplyDelete"FSU can't do anything about the COE. He who has the gold rules, and FAMU has the gold. Furthermore, FSU getting its own COE is a pipe dream. It will never happen, just like FSU getting control of the COE didn't happen. The state legislature wants to fund only one elite academic institution--UF. So I am giving up on FSU academics and concentrating instead on the football team, because that is the only thing the state legislature can't take away from us. The legislature wants FSU to be a second rate teachers college, and that is all it will ever be. I am bitterly disappointed, but this is the way it is."
Lurking on FSU message boards won't help you find the $39 million your university lost. Maybe you should be looking at FAMU, not FSU.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, you could always start a campaign to separate the college of engineering. FSU should administer its own and so should FAMU.
More from warchant.com. This was posted by "NoleOne."
ReplyDelete"After what is now years of lack of action, organization, vision and results from the FSU administration, it's high time we get a new president and clean house at our school.
I'm tired of this. There is absolutely no excuse for our school to be ranked in the 100's. No excuse. I want results, now."
Lurking on FSU message boards won't help you find the $39 million your university lost. Maybe you should be looking at FAMU, not FSU.
Is T.K. really in hot water among FSU alumni for failing to nab the E-School. Are FSU supporters getting ready to request his resignation?
Here's something else from Warchant: Giving money back to FAMU for the COE is like putting a crack addict in a crack house.
ReplyDeletePS: Where's the $39 million your university lost?
PS: Where's the $39 million your university lost?
ReplyDeleteRight next to that junk-science Chiropractic School that you almost put on your campus.
Could everyone put aside the rhetoric for a second?
ReplyDeleteThere are only 2 options. Either make the engineering school a highly rated college shared jointly by both schools or separate them. It's not even listed in the top 100 schools nationally. That is not good. If we can't figure out how to make it successful, which would raise the profile of both FSU and FAMU, then each university should go its own way. Period. End of discussion.
This must be the introduction to the opposites-Nickleodoen: One good apple ripens the bunch! I appreciate the support, but the commenter @ 6:08am is racist and is defending it in "willful ignorance" and denial to the grave.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeletegod is good all the time and all the time god is good! God is with FAMU!
4/11/2007 10:53 AM
They better recognize...
I vote for having the two schools have their own COE!