Feed up with the constant barage of negative press and lack of responsiveness by FAMU administrators, a group of students are organizing a "We Want Answers" rally, Monday, from 12-2:00 p.m., in front of the Eternal Flame on the FAMU Quadrangle.Students are being encouraged to write down any questions they may have about the current state of affairs of the university and the College of Engineering. The questions will be compiled and submitted to interim president Castell Bryant at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, April 3, 2007.
According to the email being circulated, "STUDENTS are DEMANDING that SHE answers each question to the best of her ability."
"We as STUDENTS are DEMANDING that SHE incorporates her answers to every question asked in A State & Fate Of The University Address In PERSON By Friday April 6, 2007," the email said.
The student's may also want to send Board of Governors Chair Carolyn Roberts a copy of their questions and concerns.
ReplyDeleteFAMU is in a state of being SOLD OUT by a traitor.
ReplyDeleteCastell knows what happened to Patricia Slade (Texas Southern) and Delores Cross (Morris Brown). She's trying to keep herself out of prison by appeasing the powerful FSU alums in the legislature who are pushing for criminal investigations.
Our interim president seems to think that selling out the E-School will land her a "get out of jail free" card.
In response to Carolyn Roberts comment:
ReplyDeleteYes, especially since Mrs. Roberts had a part in agreeing with T. K. Wetherell and indicated that she wouldn't oppose this transfer.
Great job students, now where is your fearless leader?
We hope the faculty will step up to the plate and take a stance against this administration.
They (students) should create an effigy of her traitor arse for stripping FAMU of its boutique programs and drag it through the set and off-campus.
Good for the students! One thing I can say about the students at FAMU, of which I am a two-degree graduate, is that despite the state of the university, they have never lost their fervor for demanding answers from the university administrators in charge of their school. This has been true from the days of the 60's
ReplyDeleteIt's about damn time!!!!This stuff would NEVER EVER HAPPEN at Hampton, Spelman, Howard OR Morehouse and if it did there would be HOLY HELL TO PAY. A Interim would not have the balls to do the stuff that CAST -HELL did but I guess she was wither born with her BIG BALLS and the godd ole boys pt brass on them
ReplyDeletecarolyn roberts as a black woman should be ashamed of herself...I kinda figured Castell was concerned about going to jail so she ceded to the demands of the FSU contigent in the FL legislature...but I will tell all one thing...god is a good god and our FAMU will reain supreme with our engineering school and all our programs in tow. Bet that up! Castell your a shameful disgrace!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the students will ask what's going on with the FAMU email system that prevents students with accounts at Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail from sending emails with attachments from campus.
ReplyDeleteThat includes turning in their assignments as attachments.
It might be worthwhile for those students to ask the FAMU administration what FAMU has to offer those hundreds and hundreds of freshmen who get admitted without meeting the minimum qualifications for admission. In fact, ask just what percentage of students are admitted without being qualified.
ReplyDeleteIs FAMU going to develop an academic help center on the scale of TCC's? Or are those students going to continue to be left to do poorly and maybe flunk out?'
The better students might also ask how they themselves are supposed to get a great education when surrounded by so many classmates who are still at the high school level, and some who act like they are still in junior high.
Let's all pray that Castell Vaughn Bryant gets indicted for the crimes she has committed against our institution. She's a crook. No doubt about it. I'm not really a praying woman, but I pray that she pays dearly for the sins she has committed against FAMU. She oughts to remember how Patricia Slade and Delores Cross conducted their presidencies at Texas Southern and MorrisB., respectively. If I were her, I'd be afraid, very, very afraid.
ReplyDeleteWhile ol' tired-assed Castell was busy denying folks their due, she's the one who's gonna have to face the music. God don't like ugly (and since she's the ugliest thing that has ever occupied the president's chair), he surely don't like her leather faced ass.
ReplyDeleteAMEN, 10:25! I teach some of these students who should, at the most, be at a community college and not at a four-year institution wasting their precious time, their parents' $$, not to mention the professors' time. Parents often send these kids to universities, knowing doggone well that lil' Susie and lil' Billy can't write, spell, add, subtract and have no idea what engaging in collegiate-level work really means. They just want to say that their lil' boy or girl is "in college at FAMU," when they know they should be at the local community college getting the basics. Everyone suffers when the parents engage this atrocious behavior by folling themselves. They need to send the children to a two-year school, then, perhaps if they show academic wherewithal, then they should transfer.
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ReplyDeleteYou're right -- this myseterious block started last week. Up to Friday no one at the help desk knew what I was talking about. The only way you can send attachments is using FAMail -- which you can keep records of who sends what -- hmmmm.
Sounds like big brother trying to step in -- but too little too late!
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ReplyDeletecarolyn roberts as a black woman should be ashamed of herself...I kinda figured Castell was concerned about going to jail so she ceded to the demands of the FSU contigent in the FL legislature...but I will tell all one thing...god is a good god and our FAMU will reain supreme with our engineering school and all our programs in tow. Bet that up! Castell your a shameful disgrace!
4/01/2007 8:23 PM
Helloooo, Carolyn Roberts is a white woman appointed by Jeb Bush as chair of the BOG.
Not that her race has anything to do with. She is another Debra Austin. In a place she has no business, higher education.
AMEN, 10:25! I teach some of these students who should, at the most, be at a community college and not at a four-year institution wasting their precious time, their parents' $$, not to mention the professors' time. Parents often send these kids to universities, knowing doggone well that lil' Susie and lil' Billy can't write, spell, add, subtract and have no idea what engaging in collegiate-level work really means. They just want to say that their lil' boy or girl is "in college at FAMU," when they know they should be at the local community college getting the basics. Everyone suffers when the parents engage this atrocious behavior by folling themselves. They need to send the children to a two-year school, then, perhaps if they show academic wherewithal, then they should transfer.
ReplyDeleteThe university is more to blame than the students. It willingly accepts unqualified students. If I get a decent paying job I'm not qualified for, I'm not going to turn it down to work some low-level starter job just because it'd be a better fit.
Let me first say that I'm glad to see that students are finally demanding answers for all of the S**T that has been happening on the Hill as of late. This is the sort of activism that attracted me to FAMU. What the students are asking for is fair and long OVERDUE!
ReplyDeleteBut I have to ask the question: Will Castell actually RESPOND to students' questions, and will she actually hold a "State and Fate of the University" Address?
Don't get me wrong, this NEEDS to happen. But what comes next?
sit in
ReplyDeleteDemanding answers have been tried before, at the Law School and on the Main Campus. Students are usually ignored. The only thing that works is an absolutely walk out/sit-in. Money (the loss of it) is the only thing that seems to be understood.
ReplyDeleteGood for you students. It is about time you demand some answers and not allow anymore stalling from this administration.
ReplyDeletePeople that deserve straight answers: Students, Tax Payers, and all FAMU employees.
All of this mess is a damn SHAME!!
If we as black people were smart enough to, as I have heard it, be so good at being dishonest all these years and getting away with it, then, I know that we are and could have been smart enough to take this GREAT UNIVERSITY to places better than FSU, UF and etc.
How could we have wasted our resources, skills, and talents this way.
I am very sorry.
FAMU is not worthy to have an E School. So before you go call anybody a criminal, learn to balance your books, stop stealing, and quit trying to boost enrollment numbers with students who are under qualified.
ReplyDeleteFAMU must learn that education whether learned or taught is not given, it is EARNED!
FAMU is worthy to have an E school and a law school. The problem is not the students. Our graduates are in Congress, on state supreme courts, and are changing the world everyday. The problem is that we have had poor leadership for a few years. Things are going to change soon. We are going to get a new president, new dean at the law school and this will turn around. Believe that!
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ReplyDeleteSpeak the truth.
Not only the law school, but the engineering school graduates as well have attended and graduated from some of the most prestigious Universities in America; earned some of the most prestigious graduate, medical and law fellowships to attend these universities.
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ReplyDeleteAnd have made major contributions to our society.
As long as we have breath, UCF, nor any other school will take our law school. People died for that dream. We need to stop fighting each other get ready for the ABA.
ReplyDeleteFAMU has lost all respect amongst taxpayers and fellow Universities. Who is too blame? FAMU!
ReplyDeleteComplain all you want about this and that, but FAMU has failed herself. It does not deserve to have an Engineering School or a Law School. The Law School is currently the worst in the state. Being "Black" is not going to be tolerated as an excuse anymore. FAMU must earn the right to educate in our state.
FAMU is behind the times and needs to become more diverse. 94 percent black is not acceptable. Why is FAMU not recruiting more whites, latinos, and asians?
ReplyDeleteDiversity in education will be the norm in the 21st century. When will FAMU open it's door and become truly diverse?
Good for the students!! Maybe they can lead by example and show the faculty on this campus how to stand up for themselves!
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ReplyDeleteYou're such an idiot. FAMU deos have many whites, hispanics, and asians. Just stroll thru each building. We are an HBCU (hence historically black colleges and university. Take a poll of other non-black colleges and report the ratio of non whites there. What the big deal with FAMU being an all black school. We do have the best pharmacy and business school in this state. What is FSU's claom to fame. Great football, baseball, no academics. Ya'll have a bunch of criminals on that side as well. In time you will be exposed. Your house, isn't that clean either. Ya'll just hiding it well and not reporting in to the Tallahassee Democrat. FAMU will rise.
Only 20% of the College of Enginering students are from FAMU. It is less 1/5 a FAMU program. It is 4/5 a FSU program already, in terms of students and faculty. FSU brings in most of the research dollars. Let's put the facts on the table. Only by FAMU's outdated, 1960's legal entitlement logic do you get to it being 1/2 FAMU and 1/2 FSU.
ReplyDeleteFAMU has become a glorified community college of black students who have no business at a university. It shoes.
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ReplyDeleteYOU MUST BE THE DUMBEST PERSON ALIVE. YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO CALL FAMU A COMMUNITY COLLEGE...THIS COMING FROM AN IDIOT WITH PROBABLY JUST A GED. ITS IGNORANT PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT LOVES TO COME ON OUR RATTLER NATION BLOGSPOT AND TRY AND BELITTLE US. GET A GRIP AND GET A BRAIN.
The FAMUAN is on board with Castell. So is Ammons. I guess that they are all crooks and idiots too. You guess are just trying to stir up controversy where nothing is going to change.
ReplyDeleteOK for Florida State to manage joint budget
By: Editorial Board
Posted: 4/2/07
The State of Florida is doing FAMU a favor while the University deals with an audit and more than $39 million dollars that were handled without the approval of the Board of Trustees.
State lawmakers have stripped FAMU of financial oversight for the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering it jointly runs with FSU, according to The Tallahassee Democrat.
FSU President T.K. Wetherell's response to the change was, "Who would you rather have manage your money?"
Although it may seem as a slap in the face to some people, for the past 10 years our University has been in control of the budget for the school, overseeing payments and operations.
If our University misses pay periods for faculty and delays students' financial aid and net checks, then why not let FSU handle budget operations for the College of Engineering?
There are more FSU students and professors at the college than students and teachers from FAMU anyway.
It seems wise to allow the University with the most representation in the college control the finances. This would be one less situation for FAMU to deal with while it sorts out all the other issues that have negatively impacted the University.
Interim President Castell V. Bryant said, "It was OK with them for FAMU to be the fiscal agent for 10 years, so why wouldn't it be OK with me for FSU to be fiscal agent for a while?"
Brent Hatchett for the Editorial Board.
YOU MUST BE THE DUMBEST PERSON ALIVE. YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO CALL FAMU A COMMUNITY COLLEGE...THIS COMING FROM AN IDIOT WITH PROBABLY JUST A GED. ITS IGNORANT PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT LOVES TO COME ON OUR RATTLER NATION BLOGSPOT AND TRY AND BELITTLE US. GET A GRIP AND GET A BRAIN.
ReplyDeleteThat's such an eloquent effort at argument!!! FAMU law school should admit you. FAMU is, in fact, at par with some community colleges in the state when it comes to admissions standards. Would you like me to post SAT numbers to make the point?
Only 20% of the College of Enginering students are from FAMU. It is less 1/5 a FAMU program.
ReplyDeleteIf this were true, I would have no problem with FSU taking it over. Isn't it 1/2 FAMU students?
Just for the record I was a student at FAMU and there was a young man who ran for SGA President and he Lost and he LOST Big because all he did was tell the TRUTH! This young man brought the house down at Lee Hall during the Debates and he showed that he had forgotten more about FAMU than all the other tickets on the stage knew combined.But, he was not flashy, he was not in the "In" crowd he was a "No non-sense a** kicking SOB" and to be honest that was too much for the happy go lucky negro's of FAMU...Go back into the past and you will see that he was a visonary...and what did the FAMUAN say about his platform, that it was too unrealistic. How sad is that. And to think what could have been and what would not have been, because he stated that he would have never let the vote for Gainous be 13-0, it would have been 12-1 and would have been correct!
ReplyDeleteHow unfortunate that we are still at this juncture on race in our history. I am a supporter of the Law School and FAMU, and legal education overall. It seems that most of the people given the charge of our university and our legislators have lost the focus, vision and responsibility to educate students. In the area of law, African-Americans still only make up 2-3% of The Florida Bar. The need for legal services in the African-American community is high and legal service is lacking. Our people are suffering because of lack of access to legal services and a legal education. Many of the non-African-American students who talk about FAMU are sitting right there at the Law School. Where are the visionaries? Where are the fighters? Where are the ones who will demand this education for our children? How much more are we willing to lose?
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ReplyDeleteLike I previously said you're an idiot. If I wanted to become a lawyer I would have attended FAMU's Law school (of course it didn't exist during my enrollment at FAMU). But I have no aspirations on becoming a lawyer. Unless you work in FAMU admissions or registrars office you can't open (or rather) write who we admit into our college. I graduated with a 3.9 gpa., as well as scored 1450 on my SAT. Don't come in here and try to belittle FAMU and compare us to a community college. Check our statistics you moron. FAMU is the greatest college in Tallahassee!!!!!!!!!!
FAMU the greatest college in Tallahassee?
ReplyDeleteTry the worst in the state! TCC has a better academic reputation than FAMU
20 percent of the students at the E School are from FAMU! Not half...
ReplyDelete"FAMU the greatest college in Tallahassee?
ReplyDeleteTry the worst in the state! TCC has a better academic reputation than FAMU"
Keiser College, Barry College, and the Institute of Biblical studies enjoy better reputations as well.c
If I wanted to become a lawyer I would have attended FAMU's Law school (of course it didn't exist during my enrollment at FAMU).
ReplyDeleteAssuming that you could havce gotten in!!! And, if you had done so, the chances that you would pass the bar would be lowest of any law school in the state!
Don't you see that, outside of the self-congratulatory HBCU circles, FAMU's reputation is in the toilet already. The state has no business throwing tens of millions of dollars at an anachronistically-minded relic of the separate but equal era that lacks the reputation of the worst private universties in the state or even of many community colleges. I think that freshmen at TCC may have higher test scores than freshman at FAMU.
FAMU is the greatest college in Tallahassee!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is the greatest historically black college in Tallahassee. It is also the most financially mismanged college in the state, if not the U.S.
6:38---NEWSFLASH--FAMU is the ONLY HBCU in Florida. Are you crazy?
ReplyDelete11:39--Your logic is apples & oranges. Parents are the first teachers...way before the university tries to do that. Just because something is "offered," academically, does not mean that it should be grabbed. Parents know what their children are capable of doing and they have the responsibility to steer thiem in the right direction. FAMU is not a remedial institution; it's suppose to be an institution of higher learning. Using your logic, if a person accepts a high-paying job simply because it is offered to them--even though they know they are incapable of doing the required work--and then management does indeed find out that the person is incapable of doing the job and spends an extraordinary amount of time trying to teach the job to the person, to no avail, what good has that done the person or the business? By your logic, a little bit is better than nothing at all. That, in academia, should not be the case. Parents already know that their children aren't 4-year college material and if they are paying attention to the academic and study habits of these children, they will take it upon themselves to steer them in another academic direction until, perhaps, they show or indicate that they are academically able to move forward. I stand by my original statement: Something is not always better than nothing.
ReplyDeleteUnderqualified students may be better served by community colleges than by FAMU.
ReplyDeleteBeing a virtually all-black university might not be the best mission for FAMU's future.
Continuing to weight hiring toward all-black faculty and staff might not be in FAMU's best interest.
What role does FAMU serve now that some other institution can't do as well or better? We need to be sure we know how to answer that question and support that answer to the taxpayers of Florida, most of whom are white and many of whom recently moved here from out of state.
Those Florida taxpayers pay about 2/3 of our bills; tuition pays the other 1/3 (and even tuition is heavily subsidized).
What is it that we do so well that legislators should continue to give us vigorous support, rather than, say, giving that money to TCC and FSU?
The survival of FAMU may depend on having a good answer to that question.
What's yours?
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ReplyDeleteIts pointless wasting my time going back and forth with such an idiot. Why are you on this blogspot again. Cause you are riding FAMU's D*ck. FAMU is the greatest University in this city.
Don't you see that, outside of the self-congratulatory HBCU circles, FAMU's reputation is in the toilet already. The state has no business throwing tens of millions of dollars at an anachronistically-minded relic of the separate but equal era that lacks the reputation of the worst private universties in the state or even of many community colleges. I think that freshmen at TCC may have higher test scores than freshman at FAMU.
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Let's be realistic here...if TCC freshman have higher test scores than FAMU freshman then why are they enrolled at a community college and not at a University????
Because they don't. Even you wanted to believe the nonsense you wrote. Or is it because you are a 6 year TCC student.
Lets be realistic, if TCC student's would have applied to FAMU they probably would have received an acceptance letter. Why? FAMU is notorious for allowing underqualified students to enroll and just letting them fend for themselves, which ultimately leads to their failure.
ReplyDeleteShow me the numbers! What is the average GPA and SAT score for incoming freshmen at FAMU?
FAMU does itself no favors by accepting everyone to boost enrollment numbers. Some of these students might not even perform in community colleges.
TCC is the better option. The school prepares you for your junior and senior years and there are no administratives headaches.
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ReplyDeleteI take it your admission application was denied by FAMU. You sound like a dejected wanna-be Rattler. Stay off our blogspot and go post on TCC and FSU blogspot idiot! I'm done going back and forth with you FAMU rejects, i'd have better luck with a rock.
FAMU is the greatest University in Tallahassee!
FAMU rejects! There is no such thing. They don't say no to anyone who can sign their name! Come on in we need to boost those enrollment numbers to get funding. Knowing that the majority will not make it pass their sophmore year.
ReplyDeleteCollege of love and charity
ReplyDeleteWe gather 'round thy noble shrine
We lift our voice in praise to thee
And ask a blessing all divine
FAMU, FAMU I love thee
I'll fight and win whatever the battle be
The orange and the green
Our sons will ever defend
And loyal to thy voice of love attend
FAMU, FAMU
FAMU I love YOU
Noles it's like this. In Florida you guys are big.
ReplyDeleteNorth of I-10 you get no respect. We undestand you're upset because FAMU stories have appeared in Fortune, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and BusinessWeek and UF is kickin you to sleep in sports. Outside of sports anywhere in the US, FSU is a non issue. You're behind UF, UNC, Clemson, UGA, Georgia Tech, Michigan, Texas, UCLA, Wisconsin, Harvard, Yale, DUKE, Boston College, Ohio State, Northwestern, Kansas, Texas A&M, etc., etc. etc.
With all the money your school has, you have no national academic standing and that my friends drives you to try to find someone you can deride.
Say what you will, but the fact remains a RATTLER will get into Harvard Law or Wharton before a 'Nole. Get to the back of the academic line.