By DInsiderThe street committee has informed RN that Castell & Co. has demanded that the National Alumni Association cease all fundraising activities at the national and chapter levels.
That means no more fish fries, crab boils, or scholarship banquets for some of us slow to catch on. This demand comes on the heels of the Florida, Northeast and Midwest regional meetings in June and July to discuss the state of the university and alumni matters. Although, the NAA operating budget has been approved by the body, the board has refused to approve the budget, under some lame excuse.
In a recent move, a south Florida trustee and others attacked tne NAA and alumni at the 2006 Winter Meeting for not supporting the university financially through national and individual donations. After a NAA record gift matched by the state for $225,000, $40,000 from FAMU Church Day, and $38,000 for the FAMU Bands from the NAA, it seems that wasn't enough cheddar for Castell's budget.
The NAA is being quiet on these two matters, but alumni are talking.
fan-f*cking-tastic
ReplyDeleteI'm with you. Let the university raise their own f*cking funds. Sh*t, that's why they have these big salaries.
ReplyDeleteCan it be any more obvious that Bryant is deliberately trying to rip this university to shreds? How in the hell are going to compete with the rest of the state university system if we are not utilizing the full power of our alumni base?
ReplyDeleteThere is no reason or rationale for this madness.
See, Castell does want or need an alumni organization.
ReplyDeleteShe's the HNIC and if the alumni don't fall in line and stop questioning her every move, and do what she says, when she says it, then they are of no use to her.
Call it madness, but it's either her way or the highway.
This is a case-in-point example of circular logic. Send one of your trustee cronies to criticize alumni for not doing enough fundraising; then, bar FAMU's alumni from raising money.
ReplyDeleteSo now, there is no chance that alumni can help to reverse the damage that Bryant has done to the recruitment program. We cannot cut checks for young, deserving students to have FAMU scholarships.
If Bryant wants the enrollment decline to continue, then who are we to challenge her on this issue?
I doubt Bryant was ever bold enough to tell Miami-Dade's alumni to stop giving money to their alma mater. And I know for sure that she did not halt enrollment at her former community college workplace.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Bryant inflicting damage on FAMU that she would have never dreamed doing at Miami-Dade? I think the answer is that she knows that the Miami-area politicians and Latin American community as a whole would have launched a full scale war against her.
But Bryant seems to have no qualms about stunting enrollment growth and fundraising at a majority black institution. She apparently doesn't think FAMU alumni or the African American community have enough backbone to stand up to her.
Isn't it curious that Bryant has worked to attack and discredit many of the strongest members of our FAMU community? She's gone out of her way to try and get FAMUans to believe that Frederick S. Humphries, Al Lawson, Henry Lewis, Larry Robinson, and Phyllis Gray-Ray are "enemies" of our institution. Isn't it curious that Bryant has worked to silence the Faculty Union, Faculty Senate, and the National Alumni Association -- organizations that are supposed to protect our university?
When Bryant was Miami-Dade, she acted like a business professional and respected the college community. Now that she's at FAMU, she's making reckless financial decisions left and right and impairing the bodies that are charged with standing up for the university.
What is this interim president's true agenda?
un mucking believable!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat is NAA President Alvin Bryant's response to this matter?
ReplyDeleteWhat happened? Did Bryant have some bad oysters or something?
ReplyDeleteZing! is heating up
ReplyDeleteJeb: Next time you appoint trustees for FAMU, how about picking some folks who actually want to help the school?
FAMU's motto under Fred Humphries was "Excellence with Caring”; now its "Mediocrity with Meanness."
Tallahassee Democrat - Originally published June 8, 2006