Not suprisingly, FAMU officials late yesterday named Lydia McKinley-Floyd, associate dean of the College of Business at Savannah State University, as SBI's new dean. See: Floyd named Dean & New SBI DeanFloyd takes over a program which like an aging automobile has begun to sputter, and stall out lately, and is in need of a tune up. SBI's problems, like much of the university, have accelerated lately under the poor leadership of Interim President Castell Bryant. SBI has been a mirror reflection of FAMU -- suffering from lack of a permanent leader, declining student enrollment, and low faculty morale.
SBI's enrollment declined by over 300 students last fall, and 500 students from its peak of 1,800 students from 2000 to 2003. Floyd becomes the third leader of the once flagship program since last December.
Recently the St. Petersburg Times noted, the recent firings of eight faculty members highlight the school's fall in stature since the retirement of dean Sybil Mobley. See: SBI Tries to Regain Glory
Mrs. Floyd, who will begin work on August 7th, replaces interim dean Patrick Liverpool. Liverpool replaced interim Dean Bradford in January of this year. Floyd will be paid $180,000 a year, which is more than the president of the University she came from earned. The Hollins Group Inc., executive search firm, was paid $55,100 to conduct the SBI dean search.
Meanwhile, FAMU let go two more SBI professors, this time in the school's accounting program. See: Two More Let Go At SBI. The 11th hour dismissals, which came via certified letter last Friday, was just plain bad timing for professors James Hardy and Johnny Johnson, who are now left little hope of teaching this fall.
Due process rights? What due process rights?
ReplyDeleteShould we now start referring to them as the "SBI 10?"
How many more have gotta go, before the faculty get on the same page and demand this administration and board to stop breaching their contract?
ReplyDeleteNigeria sent us Nwakanma
ReplyDeleteTallahassee gave us Smith
Castell and co asked us to follow Liverpool
And now we find ourselves in a cesspool.
Hope there is some where some relief
from all this unedning grief!!!!
Who the heck is Smith?
ReplyDeleteCall SBI at 599-3565 to find out who Smith is.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that's SBI's number. What is the first name.
ReplyDeleteHis first name is Wilbur.
ReplyDeleteThanks....
ReplyDeleteA few days ago, Rattler Nation had a forum on SBI's new dean. Bloggers vented out their frustration by picking on her and her qualifications to lead SBI. One even said something about her mother.
ReplyDeleteWhy talk about her? Why not pay attention to what she is going to do for SBI? Is she going to surround herself with the same old people or appoint new faces or bring her own people from outside? She would be well advised to appoint new people to assist her.
If she keeps LeverFool's people, she will inherit his cancer ghost and will be doomed from day one. SBI will go down with her. Is it wise for an outsider to take a chance on insiders like Hudson Nwakanma and Wilbur Smith who have been staging everything behind the closed doors in LeverFool's office. What does LeverFool know about SBI and PD? Using him, Nwakanma and Smith have destroyed PD. Under them SBIs future will be endangered.
Smith may seem friendly and pleasant. That's a facade, he'll trash anybody behind the scene. He is a runaway truck, always negative, mean and ruthless. Nwakanma! Oh My! The clown is a joke. He is a pile of dung that stinks the whole house. You can smell him from 10 miles away. Talking about a runaway truck, there is no control except when he wants to defend and protect his Nigerian tribesmen. He is very good at that.
Nwakanma will use every trick he can to damage and destroy those he does not like. He has a track record of doing that publicly, going after them. His favorite project is to send memos to everybody within SBI.
Do you recall the nasty memo he sent to every SBI faculty and staff member about Bradford pointing out his lack of business credentials? But he had no shame working under Brad as the director of academic programs. All he wants is serve his personal agenda.
His memo trashing Booth not that any minded that. Once he became assistant dean, there was a marriage of convenience between him and Smith. Together they got Booth kicked out of her office in a humiliating way. That was their ultimate revenge against her. They also later got rid of Norm Johnson.
Nwakanma also sent out a mean and ugly memo to everybody about Shrestha stating that he was not qualified to lead SBI's accreditation steering committee. He made a villain out of him. I personally know he repeatedly tried to undermine him and his accreditation efforts. He used to make calls and send out slanderous notes to other members of the committee, trying to pit them against him.
He left a threatening message on Gray's answering machine because he happened to mention that Nwakanma was not academically or professionally qualified accordng to AACSB standards.
He used to badmouth about Smith until he became associate dean.
As director, he once wrote an unseemly letter to Hightower.
He even sent out a mean memo to the faculty and staff about Nell Wright who makes no policy decisions. She only carries out whatever order she is given by her boss.
I mean he went after everybody until his self-serving tantrum was satisfied. He is power hungry and extremely abusive of his power and authority. The man has a severely disturbed mind, always looking for a vindictive angle. There is no pacifier big enough to keep him satisfied. He even used to run his mouth regularly against Mobley until she gave him a fat raise. That shut him up for a while.
This is the portrait of our peril. LeverFool is history, those who ran the show behind the door are still around.
To the last blogger,
ReplyDeleteIt appears you are an insider at SBI but I'm honestly not sad to see either Dr. Johnson or Dr. Booth go. Dr. Booth was without a doubt one of the meanest individuals I've ever met at FAMU. Oddly enough I found my experience getting the grad stipend, etc. a lot better after she left...
Dr. Johnson? I think I would have given FAMU $500 so I could have thrown him out of his office onto the street. He is the definition of a bum. He's worse than Prof. Thomas Jefferson because at least TJ had enough sense to sit his ass down somewhere and shutup while he was earning that easy money. Dr. Johnson had to tell everyone that he was such a big shot as Director of Student Services. Man get out of here. Dr. Johnson if you are reading this: GOOD RIDDANCE!!!
you guys are hilarious!
ReplyDeleteAs a student, let's see what Dr. McKinley-Floyd brings to the table...
Finally,for all the world to see, they "done" tore SBI up. They infighting like a bunch of professional "Knee Grows."
ReplyDeleteThe author is the piece about Nwakanma, Smith, Booth, Johnson and others sounds like Ken Gray! Gray, stop hiding behind the woodwork and come on out and show your face. I never figured you for a coward! Have some backbone!
ReplyDeleteAs a student, I am frankly disgusted with what I am reading here. I agree with blogger 10 that some of the changes happening in SBI were long over due. Graduate assistanship used to be a nightmire but since the changes, it has been like light night and day, the way students are treated. As for Dr. Smith and Dr. Nwakanma, I don't know how they deal with the faculty, but they have been fair in their dealings with students. They say no sometimes, which some people may not like, but I can vouch that they are fair.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been nice for this writer to have given some excerpt from the content of these memos they quoted to show how vindictive they were. May be those memos needed to be written. Several students at some point nursed the idea of doing more than write a memo because of the ways things were being handled in SBI.
SBI has been through enough in the last few years. I believe we should all work together to move the school forward. As a student, I am insulted at someone who appears to be faculty member using the term liverfool to address an SBI administrator in a public forum. That is what we are taught not to do in PD.
Let's keep is clean and constructive.
Yes, thank you for those comments, but Mr. Liverfool made himself ridiculous when he refused to meet with certain faculty members after he approved appointments to meet with them; when he cheapened the Dean's Office by playing Russian Roulette with people's lives and ability to provide for their families; when he associated himself with the likes of Austin, McBride and Castell and lied to the BOT about SACS faculty credentials, and the world about how THEY went about firing the SBI 8. The point is how they were fired, not why they were fired. Had he enough sense and respect for himself he would not have allowed his reputation to be tarnished with this whole taundry episode. Then again, look at DSU and how the administration violated their faculty and staff collective barbaining agreement.
ReplyDeleteHe made himself look like a fool for a couple pieces of silver.
As a faculty member in SBI, I just wanted to ask 10 what he said to Dr. Nwakanma when he was writing all those memos. From what I understood then, many faculty members were please that someone could say what they thought but were not able to say. I thought those memos were constructive and were well intentioned. Just a food for thought
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