Imagine all Florida A&M University business students using school-issued iPods to access class lectures and sessions with corporate leaders and alumni.It could happen next fall, as the new captain of FAMU's School of Business and Industry undertakes a mission to go beyond the path plowed by Sybil Mobley, SBI's longtime, beloved and, until now, only dean.
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Oh and is this praise that I hear from RN? Just like SBI and the School of Education- CB will be vindicated by time and truth!
ReplyDeletePlease, RN is just reporting the news (pack of lies) as usual. Stop trying to find an out for the motely crew. It ain't going to happen.
ReplyDeleteBesides, I am holding any judgment until that is some tangible form of improvement that can be document. Talk is cheap my brother/sister.
Read the last line, students are still jumping ship and leaving.
You have to lose a lot of blood during corrective surgery. Let the healing begin!
ReplyDeletethe Democrat didn't have to end the article with the guy transfering. Such a positive article all the way through and ending it on a bad note.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said... You have to lose a lot of blood during corrective surgery 12/19/2006 9:04 AM
ReplyDelete....resulting sometimes in death, irreparable damage to the patient, scaring, and sometimes alive but brain dead.
You have got to be kidding right?
Anonymous said... You have to lose a lot of blood during corrective surgery 12/19/2006 9:04 AM
ReplyDelete....resulting sometimes in death, irreparable damage to the patient, scaring, and sometimes alive but brain dead.
You have got to be kidding right?
What would working with FSU's business program bring to the table? They have a terrible business program.
ReplyDeleteIPOD's? How does that translate into academic success?
Entrepreneurship cannot be taught in the classroom. They have tried those types of classes in the past, and they have proven worthless.
Please, RN puts out more positive news on FAMU, then FAMU.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work RN!
This is good news...First of all entrepreneurs can still learn in the class room...and you generallly learn from the practictioners who come in.
ReplyDeleteThat was not a positive article. It was fluff. It showed that the new business Dean does not know what she is doing. She is concentrating on qualitive issues when the bigger priority is on quantitative issues.
ReplyDeleteWe all need to let time pass, and have to stop being hypercritical of every move the various permanent deans make.
ReplyDeleteShe hasn't been on the job a year yet.
Amen brotherbrown!
ReplyDeleteBrother Brown?
ReplyDeleteDo Interim Presidents appoint Permanent Deans? The last time I checked there were no such position as a permenant Dean or any other administrator. They may be tenured faculty members but not tenured as an administrator. Please check the facts!!!!!!!
That's right about tenure. Faculty members can be tenured, but administrators are not. They just just as easily go to (or back into) the classroom. Tenure is job protection. It does not guarantee placement in a position. Please understand this small fact. The new president can come in and remove the dean (any dean, actually) and place hiim/her in a classroom, tenure and all.
ReplyDeleteCorrection: administrators can indeed be tenured, but their tenure doesn't guarantee that they will remain administrators. They will have a job at the university, but not necessarily as an administrator. My correction on the previous post.
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ReplyDeleteNot at FAMU.
Tenure is a process for faculty on a tenure-earnng track.
Administrators are on a yearly contract subject to non-renewal with a to day to 6 month notice.
Sorry, it should have read:
ReplyDeleteAdministrators are on a yearly contract subject to non-renewal with a 30 day to 6 month notice depending on how many years of employment with the univeristy.
None of the people Castell hired are permanent. The new president will be free to keep or remove any administrator he or she choses.
ReplyDeleteThat is why Castell and Challis are so afraid of Ammons. They know he will come in and fill FAMU with the good Rattler administrators who've led NCCU to success.
I only used the word permanent to distinguish from interim.
ReplyDeleteSplit hairs if you wish, but my main point is the hypercriticism of the Dean of SBI is silly. She made the move to get an "advertorial" insert in the regional edition of a national business magazine, and out came the critics. Now she's considering introducing a ubiquitous technology that students can relate to into the education process, and here you all come again.
Now, if two years go by and SBI is no closer to accreditation and enrollment continues to wane, the Dean will be on the hot seat.
But I cannot foresee a scenario where the permanent president will begin to undo the appointments under the interim president just because the appointments were made by the interim president. I hope we are not about to hire that kind of top administrator. If the Deans perform, why would you?
This new dean can't hold Sybil Mobley's G-string!!!!
ReplyDeleteBut I cannot foresee a scenario where the permanent president will begin to undo the appointments under the interim president just because the appointments were made by the interim president.
ReplyDeleteAll the people hired by Castell Bryant understood that they are temporary employees. None of Bryant's hires are binding on the new president. If the new president wants to clean house, then so be it.
If these people wanted to be permanent employees, then they should have waited and applied for positions under a permanent president.
Since when does a change in presidents automatically mean a change in deans? As long as the sitting deans are successful, a prudent president won't just start cutting heads.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the new dean compared to Doc Mobley, a legend is never replaced. Although I owe everything I have become professionally to Doc Mobley, the truth is she could have and should have put a succession plan in place. However, the good Doctor was fairly autocratic, and because of it, she built a fantastic B-school.
As I learned twenty-some years ago in Dr. Bradford's graduate management class, entreprenuers/visionaries rarely put a succession plan in place, and often their organizations suffer in the immediate aftermath of their departure, so this should have been expected.
Here is a novel idea: Allow this dean some lattitude to rebuild the program. Time will tell if she is the right person for the job.
Message to new President,....
ReplyDelete"Clean House!"
Ditto --
ReplyDeleteMessage to New President clean house! And if Castell was any kind of leader, she should advise her hires that the a letter of resignation should be sitting on the new president's desk as soon as he/she is named
Maybe the new president should also demolish any new construction, rip up any new carpet, throw out the computers and lab equipment bought in the last year because it is tainted by Castell.
ReplyDeleteI'm firmly in the anti-Castell camp, but you have to know that cleaning house, just for the sake of washing away the Castell era, will do more damage than good in the short run, and you guys know how we Rattlers will be back here lamenting the campus upheaval.
Surely the new president should evaluate every program, every dean, and make changes where appropriate, and everyone in administration should be expected to justify their existence, but to come in town with a ream of pink paper in the briefcase is not the best way to proceed. I thought we agreed that "threats and intimidation" is a poor management style.
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ReplyDeleteWhat new construction? Brother, you haven't been to campus lately. There isn't any construction. The whole campus is beginning to look a lot like a crack neighborhood. The grass isn't cut or edged (wherever there is grass). Not a single flower bed, leaves everywhere, bushes need to be trimmed. It's a frightful mess.
Please tell us what is there to save?
My comment was rhetorical, but haven't we dedicated several new facilities in the last 2 years under Castell's watch? J-School, Student Athletic Complex?
ReplyDeleteWhy there is no grass and why hedges are unkempt is a mystery, but it's no reason to fire all the deans.
Anon said: "This new dean can't hold Sybil Mobley's G-string!!!!"
ReplyDeleteI was unaware that Mobley wore a G-string. MMMMM... nice.
There is no grass because it is hot, and I suppose it is rather difficult (i.e. expensive) to put in a watering system with all those hills around. It was pretty difficult (cost an extra million or so) for them to simply connect to new athletic complex to the water grid.
ReplyDeleteThere is no grass because it is hot, and I suppose it is rather difficult (i.e. expensive) to put in a watering system with all those hills around. It was pretty difficult (cost an extra million or so) for them to simply connect to new athletic complex to the water grid.
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