As problems continue to mount, the long silent president of the National Alumni Assoc. President Alvin Bryant called on Trustees to replace Trustee Chair Challis Lowe. Bryant blamed Lowe for failing to provide adequate leadership of the University and poor supervision of her employee, Interim President Castell Bryant.We now know that Castell & Co. have severely misrepresented the University's financial position and in turn received $85,000 in salary increases and bonuses. Also with the free reign trustees have granted Mrs. Bryant has removed the inspector general in the midst of an investigation in to possible wrong doing by senior university administrators, and summarily dismissed eight of 13 professors in the School of Business without regard to University policy or their collective bargaining agreements.
As the carnage continue to mount and our dirty laundry and trash has, once again, been placed on "front street", trustees would be wise to expedite their search for permanent leadership at FAMU, and we don't mean hiring the interim president.
The Hollins Group, who will be conducting the search, has said that it normally takes them about six months, but Mrs. Lowe maintains that the search will now take 13 months, until August 2007. Why additional time? FAMU needs competent leadership now, and that includes trustees.
Today's trustee meeting should be an interesting one.
What's the story on Corey Alston resigning?
ReplyDeleteIf Hollins Group is the answer, it was a stupid question.
ReplyDelete(Such respected Hollins Group leadership as a former President of Morris Brown College)
He had a problem with his background check and some legal issues and therefore was not confirmed by the Senate. The Governor's Office allowed him to say he resign to save face- - he has really been off the board about two weeks.
ReplyDeleteHe is a remarkable young man who asked tough, yet reasonable questions.
Sad to see him go.
It's public record and was mentioned in the Dixiecrat this morning.
I guess we all need to get our business affairs in order.
All this is way too little and way too late. Challis Lowe absolutely has to go but, I don't think that she will budge because she thinks that she is all that.
ReplyDeleteShe apparently thinks or feels as though she's either more intelligent than the rest of us and/or we are too stupid to figure out what she is doing is out of scope and non-benficial to the school. What treachery. What deceit. What incompentence. I guess Bryant must be licking all the right spots.
When it comes right down to it; no one has shown Bryant or Lowe that there are any real and tangible consequences to their outrageous and unforgiveable faus pas'.
Until that sting is felt by them; they won't learn their lesson.
People who think that they are the power have a tendency to engage in corruption (George Bush). Challis Lowe is not immune and nor is Castell.
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