Another marquee program is on the brink of collapsing under the sharp blade of Cast-Hell.For the first-time in over 50 years, FAMU's College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is set to be placed on probation by the Council for Pharmacy Education (CPE). Pharmacy faculty warned the FAMU BOT as far back as March ’06 that inaction on the part of the administraction could lead exactly to this outcome.
RN has learned that the Castell and Provost Debra Austin have refused to respond to key issues raised in an earlier visit by the CPE dealing with research and laboratory space, permanent leadership (dean/president), operating funds, etc. FAMU’s pharmacy faculty is known nationally for their cutting edge research, publications and teaching.
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Lewis-v-Bryant, the back story
Unbelievable!
ReplyDeleteOh it's believable...the pattern of ignorance remains in place within the leadership at FAMU...nothing should surprise us until real and ultimate leadership change occurs. Even with a new President, if he/she is not allowed to uproot many of the trees of corruption that has been planted...we will still hear and see leadership failure @ FAMU. It's just simply a matter of time before the new Governor make his move...stay tuned.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I hear that the Payroll cutover that was suppose to occur Jan. 2007 was called off by the President and so FAMU's paychecks w/continue to be cut by the State....hmmmm!
Here we go again blaming the president. As a Pharmacy alumnus, I heard the issues were around the need to update our curriculum and programs. Yes the issue is lack of leadership in the COP, lack of a strategic focus in the COP and politics within the COP that are stifling its growth.
ReplyDeleteThe stage was set for this long before the current president. Then she's damned if she does and damned if she does not. When she started appointing deans to the various programs so the various schools could start moving forward; folks starting screaming we should wait for a permanent president.
Let's put the responsibility where it belongs---with the COP.
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ReplyDeleteYou have got to be kidding.
What about the law school????
ReplyDeleteWhat about the College of Education, SBI, and the school of Architecture?
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ReplyDeleteThe President and Provost are responsible not COP leadership. As an alumnus, it appears you are out of touch with the reality at FAMU. You need to talk with the current leadership and top faculty at the COP.
The current interim President is the reason for the lack of leadership in the COP, that's obviously clear. She must be held accountable and not defended, She has been given and provided all of the information required to make the right decision to prevent bad public exposure, but she either do not respond timely, do not respond at all or respond counterproductively to pressing matters. She is being well informed but making decisions to dare the state to shut FAMU down. She makes the bad, worst and get paid bonuses, etc. to say that it's not all that bad, but when questioned about the good she reflects back to the bad made worst and present it to the BOT and they sing praises and give her raises-
ReplyDeleteGo Figure- If that's confusing, triplicate it and you can figure out the game plan - to keep us confused, in the dark and wandering (like the Children of Israel trying to find the Promise Land).
*gobsmacked*
ReplyDeleteLemme hurry up and get the hell out of here before they eff up the j-school...
Many are waiting for the new governor to "make his move" regarding FAMU. Many may not like the "move" when it comes. Mr. Crist was on the Education Committee during the struggle to get back the law school. He did not vote in favor of SB 1182. He did not see the need for a law school that would help raise the number of African-American lawyers in Florida from a stagnating 2% since the 1970s and restore the school that was illegally taken from FAMU. An article (Amid Racial Conflict, Senate Committee Kills Bill Creating Black Law School) in the March 16, 1993, Orlando Sentinel, reminds us that the past is not far behind. Those who choose to forget it is doomed to repeat it.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, right! Stop hating Jeb.
Dr. Hump (NOT Cast-hell) was sitting in the first row with Crist. And when they shook hands, the body language said a lot.
ReplyDeleteThe ship will be righted. Welcome home Dr. A.
As long as James Ammons gets rid of Debra Austin, that's pretty damn good, if you ask me. CVB will be gone, and that's half the ticket. Then after Austin, he can work his way down and get rid of all those people who make all that $$ and don't do Dip.
ReplyDeletefamu is not a school of education, but one of in fighting and name calling. what a joke! it is obvious that no change will happen and it will be business as usual when the new president comes in. why is famu so resistant to change and new ideas. what can be fresh when all the new deans and presidents come from other hbcu's? it seems to me that new leadership should be considered outside the "box" to bring some truly needed change. humphrey and ammons are part of the old school that let famu become a runaway train. hey but i am starting to enjoy the soap opera at famu because it has truly become the laughing stock of florida.
ReplyDeleteAmen to 1/02/07 10:48 am. I am also an COPP alumnus and the leadership was a mess and composed of a bunch of incompetent egomaniacs. The blame should be placed on both Lewis and Castell. She is definitiely not helping the situation, if nothing else but throwing stones on a sinking ship.
ReplyDeleteAnon at 603pm...Are you saying that Crist will move to transfer the law school to UCF?
ReplyDeleteAnon...at 10:14am...I am saying that unless Mr. Crist has had a radical change of position on the specific need for education in the African-American community, and neither his voting record in the Senate (including his voting while on the Education Committee)nor his actions as attorney general (until he made his move for the governor's office and claimed to solve a civil rights case in which everyone already knew who the criminals were) shows that he has any intent to affirmatively redress the wrongs of taking away the law school. If you look at what the few original graduates accomplished, you can imagine what the 30 years without the law school cost us. The alumni should not be silent on this. All parties with accountability for FAMU should be called to account for their action/inaction to this point. Clapping for the Marching 100, as gifted as they may be, does not answer the hard questions of denying education to thousands of students by voting no on the law school re-establishment.
ReplyDeleteall he has to do is sit back and watch the school continu to fail.
ReplyDeleteI am not out-of-touch. I am more in touch than the accused. I speak weakly to folks who are members of the COP and not in the clique. There were no surprises. The best faculty are not being asked to shine. The current dean is not a leader and as long as Dr. Lewis is just hanging out it will be hard to bring one of his peers in to lead the COP. The world is small for black pharmacy faculty. They all know each other and the status of affairs. There is a brain drain occuring all across the country as it relates to HBCUs. We must bring the best and brightest faculty and workers back to our campuses.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said... humphrey and ammons are part of the old school that let famu become a runaway train. 1/03/2007 8:12 AM
ReplyDeleteWell, what's holding you from getting on Casthell's train and riding out? Like she really made a positive difference in the future of FAMU. You people act as if nothing positive ever happened at FAMU.
Well is hasn't. At least not until President Castell V. Bryant came on board.
ReplyDeleteNow take that to the bank!