Florida State University may face an uphill battle in trying to persuade FAMU’s Board of Trustees to leave the joint College of Engineering in Innovation Park.Rattler Nation has learned that a growing number of FAMU trustees have stiff reservations about FSU’s proposal. Last week, FSU Provost Larry Abele, essentially, told the Tallahassee Democrat that he wants FAMU to pack up from the Innovation Park COE and relocate to a new one that will be built on its own campus.
According to Abele, the money would come from $30M in Public Education Capital Outlay dollars that could be designated for a third building of the Innovation Park E-College.
FAMU’s board is expected to discuss the issue at its Dec. 2nd board meeting. If FSU’s suggestion is placed on the table, it will receive some very tough questions.
The biggest concern appears to be the amount of risk involved. Trustees want to know why FAMU should carry the burden of making sure that the Florida Legislature fully funds a new building, operating budget, and faculty salary lines up to standards required by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
Another major question is: Why is FAMU, rather than FSU, being singled out to leave Innovation Park?
Despite this skepticism, the FAMU BOT’s final decision on this issue is anything but a forgone conclusion.
Opinion: FAMU should not leave Innovation Park
Ammons has strict conditions on idea of separate E-Colleges
Engineering critical to FAMU’s STEM Ph.D. ambitions
T.K.’s promises regarding engineering school “changes” don’t cut it
T.K. to FAMU: Get out!
Good!
ReplyDeleteIf Ammons and the FAMU BOT are truly interested in building STEM programs at FAMU, they will simply ignore FSU's demands to exit the E-College. FSU is perfectly free to leave and build their own E-College. By the way, who is supposed to get the Ph.D. programs? These are the real prizes. It is ridiculous to suggest that FAMU and FSU can still share them when they have two different colleges. FAMU BOT--forget it. You are going to get screwed if you persist in trying to deal with FSU.
ReplyDeleteDitto
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have the FAMU BOT emails or
ReplyDeletephone numbers?
I want write a letter of support for our COE.
Please rattlernation we must stop anyone from taking our COE next it will be our phamacy school.
The trustees all have famu.edu emails. They're available at the BOT's web page:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?a=BOT&p=Trustees
FAMU ought to treat this like what it is-- a divorce! FSU wants to divorce us and put us out of our home at Innovation Park with the promise of payment from a third party (the Legislature).
ReplyDeleteThey want us to go for $30M(their price) from the state, then they should go get that and add another $20M (it'll cost us at least $50M to build a new facility)to buy us out, then wait for us to have a place to relocate into before we leave.
Let's call our lawyer!
Cue up Jennifer Holliday! "...and I'm telling you, I ain't going!..."
ReplyDeleteDo you know what I love about this board? FAMU is slowing becoming a dinosaur and you do not even know it. Replace, white with black, and this board would be labeled racist and intolerable. Funny, people are starting to see FAMU that way. The times they are a changing.
ReplyDeleteI got a better idea why doesn't FSU build a new E School on all that under utilized land on FAMU. Consequently FAMU's E School would be near FSU's southwest campus, and FSU's on FAMU's campus. Makes sense does it not?
ReplyDeleteInnovation Park DOES NOT belong to FSU.
ReplyDeleteOh don't you know? FSU thinks that EVERYTHING IN TALLAHASSEE belongs to them...
ReplyDeleteEven Rattlernation.blogspot.com!
Yeah. Every time the E-College issue pops up, Seminoles invade this blog and try to tell us what to do.
ReplyDeleteFSU tried to take over Innovation Park a few years back. Rattlers stood up to them then and we'll stand up to them again.
They don't invade this blog but they are quite a nuisance...
ReplyDeleteOkay I'll be fair and say that it only involves SOME Seminoles; but they know who they are.
See, they can't maturely disagree nor do they know the concept of fighting fairly so they TRY to use bullying tactics and back-of-the-room politics & intimidation instead. They just don't know any other way! It's so sad I tell ya. New day...same old Seminoles.