Rattlers owe debt of gratitude to HBCU Digest, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FAMUans near and far owe lots of gratitude to HBCU Digest and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Their coverage of the recent changes at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering (COE) helped take this important news issue from the blogosphere to a number of major media outlets in the state of Florida.

The FAMU Board of Trustees has finally scheduled a face-to-face discussion with President Elmira Mangum to talk about what happened at the May 20 meeting of the Joint College of Engineering Governance Council of the COE. That will take place on Tuesday.

Below are links to some of the articles that have been written on this topic over the past weeks:

HBCU Digest: For FAMU College of Engineering, Can Money Follow Leadership? (July 2, 2015)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education: Florida State Takes Hold of FAMU Engineering Purse Strings (July 6, 2015)

WCTV-6: FSU Becomes Fiscal Agent for FAMU-FSU College of Engineering (July 9, 2015)

WFSU: FAMU Addresses Alumni Concerns Over College of Engineering Finance Transfer (July 10, 2015)

Florida Times-Union: An Uneasy Truce as FAMU Board ofTrustees Mulls Concerns about President’s Leadership Style (July 12, 2015)

Tallahassee Democrat: Change in Roles for FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Raises Concerns (July 14, 2015)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education: Stakeholders Question Changes to FAMU-FSU Joint College of Engineering (July 15, 2015)