The FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has been taken off probation by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education and remains fully accredited through 2010.Last Friday, FAMU President James Ammons, along with COPPS Dean Henry Lewis attended an ACPE hearing in Tampa to report on improvements made at the university's marquee program.
“I am elated by the actions of the ACPE Board in both lifting of our probation and extending accreditation through 2010,” said Lewis. “This action comes as a result of the tremendous hard work of the faculty, staff and student body within the College over the past five months to address the 21 accreditation findings from its previous ACPE site visit.”
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Faculty battle Castell
Castell tried to kill program
Castell tried to take them under, but couldn't!
ReplyDeleteWay to go Dr. Ammons & Dean Lewis !!!
Blaming Castell all the time just shows just how naive FAMU supporters are.
ReplyDeleteA fair share of the blame needs to go to Humphries, but that just would not fit the house of cards that Humphries sold ya'll.
It is a shame that he is not man enough to on up to his responsibilities. But would expect any different from a black male?
Ammons turned his back on a female officer at NCCU who faced sexual harassment and was fired. She later brought in the Federal Government who ruled that she was unjustly terminated and her civil rights were violated.
Way to go Ammons I don't think so. I guess civil rights don't matter if a black women is harassed by a black male?
Back on top....? The school is not even listed in the U.S. rankings!!!!
ReplyDeleteTo hell with U.S. rankings. We're one of the best in the WORLD!!!
ReplyDeleterattling (yoyo)
ReplyDeleteIt's past your bed time. Get lost Rattler wannabe.
FAMU IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!111
FAMU Pharmacy never had any accreditation problems until Castell began tampering with the budget. The faculty warned her but she was carrying out an agenda to sabatoge Pharmacy.
ReplyDeleteRattling (yoyo) and other FSU supporters wanted to see the FAMU Pharmacy go under so FSU could take it. But that will NEVER happen!
No one from FSU has any business preaching to FAMU about how to handle sexual harassment complaints. Sandy D'Alemberte was lambasted by newspapers all across the state 6-years ago for failing to conduct a proper investigation into sexual harassment claims at the law school. This reflects a long-running problem at FSU.
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
August 07, 2000, Monday, 0 South Pinellas Edition
Damage control at FSU; Pg. 8A
EDITORIAL
Florida State University President Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte keeps practicing damage control when he should be exerting institutional control.
An independent report issued this week merely confirmed what just about everyone at FSU except D'Alemberte realized long ago: D'Alemberte, the former dean of FSU's law school, "bears direct responsibility" for the university's extended failure to conduct a proper investigation of sexual harassment complaints revolving around a notorious law school professor.
But instead of acknowledging the central shortcomings detailed in the report, D'Alemberte responded by accusing the investigators (from an Austin-based law firm retained by FSU's office of inspector general) of "sloppy thinking" and "gross distortion of the record."
If anything, D'Alemberte should be thankful the report's conclusions weren't even more damning. Investigators concluded the school had not created a hostile work environment based on gender or race. Yet some female faculty members and students who left the law school say FSU administrators condoned a pattern of discrimination, harassment and inappropriate conduct. And the report notes that
D'Alemberte "create(d) an appearance of impropriety and favoritism" in his handling of complaints lodged against law school professor William McHugh - accused of a pattern of inappropriate behavior including exposing himself to a female student, making vulgar comments in class and making degrading comments about women.
Complaints about McHugh date to the 1980s, when D'Alemberte was law school dean. D'Alemberte's explanations for his failure to address formal complaints against McHugh back then "are not credible," the report concludes. More than a decade later, with McHugh still on the faculty and D'Alemberte now president, discrimination and harassment were still being blamed for the departure of some of McHugh's female colleagues.
D'Alemberte's response to the report is disappointing but not surprising. D'Alemberte, who became FSU's presidency after a distinguished legal career that included a term as president of the American Bar Association, isn't a traditional college administrator, but he was expected to bring a new level of dignity to the university's governance. Instead, the mishandling of several controversies on his watch, including the law school mess, various athletic department scandals and unseemly alliances between university officials and Tallahassee politicians has tarnished FSU's reputation.
The job of restoring that reputation can't begin until D'Alemberte and other FSU leaders finally break out of damage-control mode and acknowledge the mistakes of the recent past.
*Correction: The article above covers an issue that took place just over 7 years ago.*
ReplyDeleteFAMU's law school is the worst in the state. The ABA will shut down the school soon. To little and always to late for FAMU.
ReplyDeleteDon't believe these people trying to flip the script. These are FSU people coming on here and attacking FAMU just like they always have.
ReplyDeleteHere is the quote from the St. Pete Times again in case you missed it: "Some female faculty members and students who left the law school say FSU administrators condoned a pattern of discrimination, harassment and inappropriate conduct."
FSU needs to stop talking about FAMU and fix its own problems.
FSU is mismanaging taxpayer money by giving out $12M in overpayments. Get your financial house in order!
ReplyDeleteFSU:
ReplyDelete1. Made insurance overpayments of more than $12M.
2. Failed to properly investigate sexual harassment and discrimination claims in the law school.
3. Let T.K. pocket $65,000 in taxpayer money that violated the salary cap law.
4. Has student athletes who cheat.
5. Does not properly supervise cell phone use and costs.
6. Failed to conduct criminal background checks for all its employees.
7. Has employees who ignore the university's own guidelines for contracts.
8. Could not account for $2.6M in university property in 1992.
9. etc. etc. the list goes on and on
MIAMI HERALD
ReplyDeleteSeptember 21, 1992, Monday
FSU FACULTY OVERPAID, AUDITORS FIND
SECTION: Section B; Page 8, Column 1; (AP)
Audit conducted by Florida officials contends that Florida State University officials have overpaid faculty and cannot account for $2.6 million worth of property; another audit charges that Board of Regents continues to violate state law by not documenting how professors spend workdays.
6. Failed to conduct criminal background checks for all its employees.
ReplyDeleteDoes this apply to the accountant who got busted for taking bribes, and the dean who is a child predator?
How about the endowed chair at the Law School who got busted for wire fraud and it seems that the donation he gave is being sought by the Feds.
8. Could not account for $2.6M in university property in 1992.
ReplyDeleteFAMU could not account for 39 million last year!
4. Has student athletes who cheat.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct, but the athletic dept. did not get busted for over 200 hundred violations 3 years ago like someone I know.
7. Has employees who ignore the university's own guidelines for contracts.
ReplyDeleteFAMU has employees that downright steal. A freakin' Dean got busted for stealing 50k with the help of another administrator. That is low!!!!
Let's not forget about the FSU staffers accused of grand theft.
ReplyDeleteSt. Petersburg Times (Florida)
June 3, 1992, Wednesday, State Edition
FSU staffers accused of grand theft
SECTION: TAMPA BAY AND STATE; STATE DIGEST; Pg. 5B
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE; DELRAY BEACH; SATELLITE BEACH
Three staff members at a Florida State University multimedia center are accused of running an unauthorized private company in competition with the school.
Dennis Thorp, Jon Cramer and Sandra Calhoun each posted $ 10,000bail on grand theft charges, university Vice President Robert Johnson said Monday. They all worked for the Center for Instructional Development and Services, which produces educational videos. The school's investigation showed the three formed a private company in 1990 and tried to market products that had been developed by the center. Cramer resigned in November; Calhoun and Thorp were placed on leave in March. Their contracts will not be renewed, Johnson said.
The charges are the latest in a series of problems, including mismanagement and bookkeeping errors, that will cost $2-million and result in the closing of the center June 30.
you already posted that.
ReplyDeleteDo you remember when the FAMU Foundation got in trouble with the IRS?
Say it isn't so!
I got more, what u got girl?
Did FSU receive a qualified audit?
ReplyDeleteCastell had the only qualified audits which is why FAMUans pushed her to resign despite opposition from FSU's friends like Carolyn Roberts.
FAMU could not account for 39 million last year!
That's not what the state audit said. The auditors said Castell didn't follow the right guidelines when she spent the money, not that FAMU couldn't account for that.
That is another one of the problems that Castell brought in, which is why FAMUans did everything we could to kick her out.
Where is the accountability at FSU?
FAMU has employees that downright steal. A freakin' Dean got busted for stealing 50k with the help of another administrator. That is low!!!!
FSU's Dennis Thorp, Jon Cramer and Sandra Calhoun were all charged with grand theft. Those arrests were part of $2M in financial mismanagement associated with FSU's Center for Instructional Development and Services. That's low!
Can you believe one Dean got busted for stealing money from the university and another was convicted of raping a 13 year old girl.
Can you believe that FSU failed to properly investigate sexual harassment complaints in its law school and several female professors who left said that was just business as usual over there?
I thought the blog headline was about the pharmacy schol. How did we get to All of the Above?
ReplyDelete1:01 am .... the reason is simple. There is that sick, mindless, meniacal element - that cannot stand for FAMU TO PROSPER. They are some miserable slobs - and will only get worse - because FAMU WILL ONLY GET BETTER - STRONGER - GREATER -AND REGAIN IT'S PROMINENT PLACE IN THE ACADEMIC ARENA.
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