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August 31, 2006
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August 31, 2006
Hatchet Job!!!!
August 31, 2006
Castell cleared; whistle blower fired The outside auditor, whom we are told was handpicked by Castell & VP of Compl…
Law School Catching On
August 31, 2006
The FAMU College of Law appears to be catching on. Applications and admissions to the College are on the rise. In 200…
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August 30, 2006
Rattler Nation has learned that to turn around sagging enrollment numbers that FAMU admissions officers are still accep…
FAMU's enrollment continues to slide
August 30, 2006
Where have all the students gone? FAMU's prelimenary fall enrollment of 11,000 students, as reported in today's…
FAMU Buys Campus Emergency Notification System
August 29, 2006
Notification System Will Send FAMU News and Emergency Info to Students' Cell Phones Florida A&M University (FAM…
Schools back in session
August 29, 2006
By the Numbers Preliminary enrollment numbers suggest that FAMU's enrollment is declining. FAMU remains the No. 1 p…
It's Official... We're #1!
August 28, 2006
BLACK ENTERPRISE (BE) today officially announced its 2006 list of the Top 50 Colleges for African Americans. Of the 1…
Disney Renews as Florida Classic Title Sponsor
August 28, 2006
$400,000 in scholarships committed to FAMU and B-CC Walt Disney World (WDW) announced today that it will once serve as…
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August 27, 2006
The State newspaper in Columbia, SC named FAMU's Bragg Memorial Stadium as one of its favorites. Particularly, t…
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August 27, 2006
It's Sunday and it's time to return the thanks to the creator. Here's Mahalia Jackson's 1958 rendition…
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August 26, 2006
We're gonna continue this good vibe we're on. Here's how we feel about the BE #1 Ranking, vintage Diana Ro…
Time to Vote!
August 26, 2006
Early voting has started in Florida for the fall primary elections. We encourage you to participate in the electoral p…
Best band: Florida A&M
August 26, 2006
In its annual college football preview, special section, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper named the FAMU Mar…
Time for some good news...
August 26, 2006
BE's recent ranking of FAMU as the best college/university for Black students is a very welcomed and well deserved …
SBI 8 a BIG topic on radio show
August 25, 2006
The SBI 8, or 10 depending upon who's counting, was a major topic today on Roosevelt Wilson "Against the Grai…
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August 24, 2006
Rattler Sings: Kimberly Holloway
August 24, 2006
Kimberly Holloway has been wowing audiences with her vocal abilities since the age of three. Some say she was born wit…
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August 24, 2006
Rattler Writes: When Morning Comes
August 24, 2006
FAMU graduate Steven Gallon III, Ed.D., has written his second book ---"When Morning Comes". Its a tale ba…
BE Ranks FAMU #1 for Black Students
August 24, 2006
Black Enterprise magazine has ranked Florida A&M as the best U.S. college/university for Black students in its Sep…
Faculty pledge $105,000 to scholarship endowment campaign
August 23, 2006
FAMU's faculty & staff pledged $105,000 to the University's annual fundraising campaign at its kick-off br…
FAMU Foundation Balance sheet shows loss
August 23, 2006
The latest Internal Revenue 990 for the FAMU Foundation shows that it has lost a total of $1, 363,337 in direct and in…
FAMU hires Alcorn AD as Sr. Assoc. AD
August 23, 2006
Alcorn State athletic director Robert Raines has turned in his letter of resignation and his final day on campus is Th…
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August 22, 2006
This just in... Castell reassigns executive assistant (Mrs. Jones), and exiled her to the General Counsel's offic…
Student Affairs, A Divison in Chaos
August 22, 2006
On the heels of mass firings within the Housing Department, the recent resignations of the director and assistant direc…
Off Topic: A Look Back at Hurricane Katrina
August 22, 2006
It's been nearly a year since Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. This weekend, AP re…
Presidential Search drags on at a snails pace
August 21, 2006
This afternoon the University sent faculty and staff a letter from Trustees R.B. Holmes and Laura Branker , co-chairs…
FAMU won't return US News survey
August 21, 2006
Florida A&M University, staring down declining enrollment in recent years, refused to fill out the U.S. News survey…
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August 21, 2006
Just a reminder, we are a finalist in two categories in the 2006 Black Blog Awards --- Best New & Best Topical Blo…
Housing Employees Fired!!!!!
August 20, 2006
On the eve of the start of the 2006 fall semester Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Vincent June has fired approx…
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August 19, 2006
FAMU Grad to make TV debut in Fantasia Barrino Story
August 19, 2006
Tonight, Marci Stringer , a Tallahassee native and FAMU graduate, will make her television debut in the Lifetime movie …
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August 18, 2006
FAMU settles with faculty
August 18, 2006
It seems that during the 2004-2005 tenure approval process, 30 or more FAMU faculty members did not receive the promoti…
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August 18, 2006
Correction: It has been brought to our attention, and we rechecked, that we misinterpreted information we were provide…
SACS Contradicts Hobbs & Castell
August 17, 2006
SACS contradicts Hobbs and CastellFaculty got an ear full yesterday during the first day of the Faculty Planning Confer…
Castell offers Faculty half percent bonus if they forego union representation
August 17, 2006
Rattler Nation has learned that our interim president has offered faculty and staff and half percent raise if they for…
The Nominees are in. And...
August 16, 2006
We are a finalist in two categories in the 2006 Black Blog Awards --- Best New & Best Topical Blog. Our blog budd…
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August 15, 2006
Tracing the History of the Florida A&M Marching 100 in pictures, from "back in the day" to today.
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August 15, 2006
Today's St. Petersburg Times called our University "financially mismanaged". On the one hand, they crit…
Rattler Nation Web Poll...
August 14, 2006
As a part of our accreditation process, we've intiated the following self study. LOL Who reads Rattler Nation? …
Interviews for Dean of the College Law begin Today
August 14, 2006
FAMU will begin interviewing candidates for Dean of the FAMU College of Law today. The finalist the search committee w…
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August 13, 2006
J-School Faculty Member takes Top Honors at Conference Yanela Gordon , assistant professor in the School of Journalism…
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August 12, 2006
Rattler takes over as head athletic trainer for JCSU
August 12, 2006
Layla McCall has been named the new Head Athletic Trainer at Johnson C. Smith University. McCall, who had been the H…
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August 11, 2006
Sorry yall, I've been out of pocket a little bit. I've been at a beach party, i'll be back on this joint H…
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August 10, 2006
+ Sorry for the delay in posting today. I picked the wrong day to get on an airplane. My 6 a.m. flight was complete …
FAMU CFO Quits Abruptly
August 10, 2006
In the wake of a state audit revealing a $10.4M deficit, Gerald Dunn , interim vice president for fiscal affairs and CF…
Strikers on 106 & Park Today
August 09, 2006
The FAMU Strikers dance team will appear on BET's "106 & Park" today at 6 p.m. The Strikers will part…
When is a DSO not a DSO?
August 09, 2006
In a seven hour meeting yesterday, the FAMU BOT Budget and Finance subcommittee took a look at the operation of all FA…
If It's Football Season....
August 08, 2006
That can only mean one thing, it's time for the "100" !!!! Highlights from the 100's 2006 performanc…
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August 08, 2006
There's still time to nominate RattlerNation for the Black Blog Awards, that includes you too Castell. Click here …
SBI 8 waiting on assignments
August 08, 2006
The fired, then rehired SBI faculty members are sitting around waiting and just waiting. They've been rehired, b…
Faculty Credentialing Process Misunderstood
August 07, 2006
Rattler Nation has learned that SACS' faculty credential standards are "guidelines" (p.8 of Principles o…
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August 06, 2006
Rattlers pick up two 1-A Transfers Ratttlers reported in today for the start of 2006 fall football practice. Among th…
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August 06, 2006
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August 06, 2006
Speaking of Capitol Hill (DC)... Rattler Janelle Carter , is leaving the Office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert where …
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August 05, 2006
Two Rattlers Among 50 Most Beautiful on Capitol Hill
August 05, 2006
FAMU graduate Melanie Roussell , press secretary, to U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was named one of the 50 most b…