FAMU Alumni from throughout the country will gather in Atlanta January 18-21, 2007, to address some of the pressing needs of the association. The meeting is the association's annual winter meeting.
The theme for this year's meeting, which is hosted by the Metro-Atlanta Chapter, is "Giving Back Today for a Better FAMU Tommorrow".
Here's more about the event: FAMU NAA Winter Meeting
Is there any word yet about whether the Humphries haters will launch an effort to challenge the NAA's endorsement of Ammons? There are already some Humphries foes who want to challenge the endorsement on procedural grounds.
ReplyDeleteThey claim that the upcoming endorsement meeting in Orlando is not being organized according to NAA constitutional requirments and that the NAA should have held its own candidate interviews before endorsing anyone.
Is this latest attack on Ammons expected to gain any traction at the Winter Meeting in Atlanta?
The A-train is moving...
ReplyDeleteIt's moving down the tracks...
It's picking up lots of steam...
And there ain't no looking back!
Keep on pushing!!!!
I believe the decision is truly a procedural issue. It has nothing to do with either Ammons or Humphries. People just want the alumni association to operate in a democratic fashion. Was there a reason to have a meeting before the meeting to endorse someone? Shouldn't we at least respect all of the candidates, meet them and hear their position and vision for the university? The president is not selected based on popular vote. It is a real possibility that Ammons may not be selected. Do we really want to start out our relationship with the new president with a snub?
ReplyDeleteIf the alumni association chooses to endorse someone that is fine. Let's at least allow the members of the association to weigh in and not let a few people make a decision for all of us. That's why we have a structure of Chapter Presidents, Regional Vice Presidents and an Executive Board---to represent the concerns of the membership; not individuals who have a personal agenda.
It's funny just about a year ago Rufus Little, Carolyn Collins, and Charles Lewis (NAA leadership) were leading the charge to get a new president (orignal Castell Haters). Now that they are all in the co-hoots (sp) (got paid/jobs) they are trying by any means necessary to derail the "A" train.
ReplyDeleteThis is America not Iraq, if like minded alumni are willing to support Ammons then they have the right to do so. I wish the Thelma Thompson and Howard Johnson supporters would come out of the closet and "Into the Light". Don't be skeered.
And for the poster above me, it's a real possibility that Ammons may be selected as well. Regardless of who is selected, it is time to make our voices heard and stop taking a backseat to the process and complaining when we don't like the outcome.
Secondly, some of these same individuals (following the organizers) were so gong-ho about getting Gainous out, never once stopped to ask these organizers (same individuals) who would replace Gainous. Well the organizers had a candidate in mind and she is sitting in the big chair. These organizers were so smooth, that when Challis Lowe finished with Corbin he didn't know what hit him and even until today Corbin is still clueless.
Folks don't believe the hype. Just don't let these organizers derail this train. Keep your eyes on the prize.
Can someone please explain why the NAA secretary cannot produce the freakin minutes? Is this the same secretary they tried to vote out of office at the Winter Meeting seventy-eleven years ago, but certain people wanted to give her sorry arse another chance?
ReplyDeleteCan someone post her damn number and email, so that folks can tell her to produce the freakin minutes? This is a darn shame.
To the poster above --
ReplyDeleteYou don't know what you are talking about. The people leading the charge to get rid of Dr. Gainous were Vanessa Byers out of Miami and Demetral Wester out of Jacksonville. They took it to the NAA Executive Board, of which Alvin Bryant was President, and the NAA Executive Board endorsed the recommendation that Dr. Gainous be forced to step down. Carolyn Collins had no involvement in this.
Rufus Little and Charles Lewis led the motion that the NAA be fully engaged in the search process for a permanent president.
Get your facts straight.
Kramer!
So I guess the answer to my question is "yes." The Humphries haters are going to make a last stand at the NAA Winter Meeting. It looks as if they're going to try and tear down James Ammons rather than trying to suggest another candidate.
ReplyDeleteI just hope Alvin Bryant and the NAA Executive Board will stand up against this pending assault. A. Bryant wisely broke ranks with James Corbin when he realized that Corbin does not have FAMU's best interests at heart. He also finally came out against Challis Lowe and Castell Bryant.
Challis and Castell apparently still have many followers in the NAA who like $10M deficits, plummeting enrollments, and inept management of FAMU's reaffirmation of accreditation process. These people need to be confronted and defeated like the anti-FAMU operatives they are.
Keep on hitting the wood pile dem snakes sho is coming out.
ReplyDeleteRufus, Charles where you at? Keep talking out both sides of ya mouth.
Kramer vs Kramer (the other one)
What charge did Rufus and Charles lead other than a charge to get paid doing absolutely nothing at FAMU?
ReplyDeleteRufus Little and Charles Lewis led the motion that the NAA be fully engaged in the search process for a permanent president.
ReplyDeleteGet your facts straight.
Kramer!
1/05/2007 2:42 PM
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FOTFLMBAO -- you people say some of the funniest things. This is a classic.
For all of this fuss and rock throwing at the Ammons' supporters believe me it is only a smoke screen/front for the dirt they are doing by behind the scene.
ReplyDeleteWon't be in Orlando but totally support the effort. I'm on the A-Train!!!
ReplyDeleteWhile the powers that be play games, our students are steadily losing ground...
ReplyDeleteThe Black Colleges With the Highest Black Student Graduation Rates
By a large margin, the highest black student graduation rate at a historically black college belongs to the academically selective, all-women Spelman College in the city of Atlanta. In fact, the Spelman black student graduation rate of 77 percent is higher than the black student graduation rate at many of the high-ranking predominantly white colleges and universities in the nation.
Spelman’s unusual strength shows in the fact that it has a higher black student graduation rate than do such prestigious and primarily white colleges as Bates, Colby, Berkeley, UCLA, the University of Michigan, Claremont McKenna, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Carnegie Mellon.
Following Spelman in the rankings, the next-highest black student graduation rate among the HBCUs is at Fisk University. At Fisk, 63 percent of the entering black students go on to graduate within six years. Hampton University, Miles College, Howard University, Morehouse College, and Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina sadly are the only other HBCUs that graduate at least half of their black students within six years.
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