The Tallahassee Democrat this morning did a fairly decent wrap up story this morning accessing where we are at this point. It breaks no new ground. Perhaps, the biggest piece of news from it is that at this juncture FAMU officials are predicting that enrollment for this fall will be about the same as last year. Honestly, we hope that holds true.
The other thing I took from it is that we only have a total of three National Achievement Scholars enrolled in the entire university. Here's the story: FAMU searching for solid ground.
We might revisit this later and do a break down for everyone.
FAMU has been in a mess for quite sometime. Even in 1997 when it was the Princeton Review School of the Year, many programs remained unaccredited (SBI included). Don't be fooled with the hype. FAMU must raise the standard. It's time to move forward with integrity. The Bryant clean-up merely shows how bad the situation has been. We can't ignore the mess any longer. While UM has moved into the "Donna Shalala Era" and raised $1.15 billion (yes BILLION) dollars from its alumni and supporters, FAMU continues to fight and implode.
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ReplyDeleteIn 1997 enrollment was climbing, the SBI school was one of the best in the nation. FAMU was the school every high school senior wanted to come to. Nothing positive has come out of Castell, Corbin, Lowe plan of action. Decreased enrollment. Decreased research dollars and grants. The climate is much worse when Gainous was president and was fired for. It appears that FAMU is in an even bigger mess now than it was in 1997. I'll take the 1997 mess over the 2006 mess anyday.
It's you again.
ReplyDeleteThe School of Business and Industry is the only school/college that is not accredited on FAMU's campus.
Dear Misinformed,
First of all Castell Bryant was NEVER the president of Miami Dade Community College now called Miami Dade College.
Her correct title was campus president, after serving as dean of students. Campus president would be something similar to Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at FAMU.
Secondly, Dr. Eduardo J. Padron is the College President of Miami Dade College. Miami Dade College has eight (8) campuses. St. Petersburg College another major college in the state of Florida and the first to transition from a community college to a college has some eleven (11) campuses.
Dr. Bryant was so destructive in south Florida, that they removed her from any major epicenter and relocated her in the boom docks.
She was ineffective then, just like she is now. If she was worth a ----, she would not have feared going through a REAL search and screening process, however, she and Corbin manipulated the BOT behind the scences and she was appointed and not selected to lead FAMU. REPEAT, she was appointed and not selected to lead FAMU.
This was the crux of the discussion lead by Randy Hanna, Barney Bishop and Regina Benjamin during this dog and pony show orchestrated by Corbin and Castell. These individuals new that Castell was not qualified to lead FAMU, but were out numbered by the shennighans and back door machinations of James Corbin (the puppet master).
If this is Rufus Little again, go and read the Florida Statutes. Better yet, make sure you have completed the responses to those audit findings that are due on June 23, 2006. Rufus you are not consider an attorney in the state of Florida until you pass the DAMN bar. This not Mississippi your home state. If you want to practice law as an attorney in Mississippi then take you butt to MS.
I digress...... Castell's has never risen to any level of prominence in higher education. CEO's of major community colleges do not reference her style of management or try to emulate. She is not known for any issue or even considered an expert on any matter dealing with higher education no where in the 50 states. Search the web and you will come up blank on any paper, refereed journal article, paper presented at a national conference on higher education, or a quote that would distinguish Castell from 100's of other leaders in higher education, as a member of SACS review committees, a fellow at American Council on Education, etc.
She is a FRAUD plain and simple. Any search on Castell is linked to her almost 2 year tenure at FAMU and 99.9% of those are negative and adds no substance to any issue in higher education. But serve as a warning to any organization that maybe considering someone that exhibits her behavior.
By allowing Corbin and Castell to manipulate yet another seating of a president, FAMU has lowered it's standard.
Neither of these individuals have integrity and they are both liars. The lies they tell may very well be exposed by SACS very soon.
You are correct, we cannot ignore the mess any longer. My suggestion to you is to let Castell clean mess in Jasper, Florida and Corbin clean mess in Marianna.
Castell Bryant says: "This is where the pain starts."
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FAMU BOT: Where is the moritorium on hiring and firing? We cannot let Bryant do this. As Roosevelt Wilson recently noted in the Outlook, Bryant is refusing to consider alternative credential qualifications (professional experience, research, etc.) in these faculty evaluations.
This is madness! Graduate school training is not the only SACS-accepted method for teaching qualifications.
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ReplyDeleteYou said a mouth full and you're right on point.
Preview of this morning's Tallahassee Democrat:
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http://www.tdo.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060725/FAMU01/607250322/1010
Bryant is canvassing the media for support. She sat down with the Democrat editorial board to plead her case (why they should stop writing editorials that actually hold her accountable). She's blaming the imaginary $8M surplus number on "wrongly recorded" financial transactions.
We can also look forward to a $10 million dollar campaign for student scholarships and faculty chairs (what about the crumbling Industry Cluster).
We can also look forward to the recruitment plan that was originally promised almost a year ago. One of her "new" initatives includes getting a list of blacks who scored well on the PSAT (which FAMU had been doing EVERY year since 1985 until Bryant was hired).
She's also hiring more recruiters (translation: Bryant will not be out recruiting personally like Humphries did -- that was what gave the recruitment the competitive edge).
Incompetence strikes, and strikes, and strikes again!
To Anonymous @ 7/24/2006 6:48 PM:
ReplyDeleteWhile Bryant did make some good changes at Florida Memorial, the Board of Trustees there was not impressed enough to hire her for the permanent job.
Florida Memorial did not hire Bryant as interim president with a restriction against applying for the permanent job. When she applied for the permanent presidency there, she was rejected cold.
Read the back editions of the Miami Herald. The information is all there.
What's bothering about the financials is that we have the highest price accounting "gunslingers" in the state
ReplyDelete(KMPG) and Madame President is saying that $10 million was recorded wrong in the books.
Yeah don't forget KPMG's no bid multimillion contract and Lowe's ties to KPMG!
ReplyDeleteSBI wasn't in NEED of being accrecited. If it was so bad, why did it become a widely pimped model for OTHER universities?
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