A former state Supreme Court Justice, a Chicago investment analyst and two members of the Florida A&M University board of trustees were among seven business, legal and education leaders chosen Thursday for a special task force to examine FAMU's finances.
State University System Chancellor Mark Rosenberg announced plans for the team, headed by Board of Governors audit chair Lynn Pappas, last Monday. He acted in response to a scathing preliminary report by Auditor General Bill Monroe, who found more than $50 million in unexplained expenses and revenues at FAMU.
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Why the HELL is Allen on this task force?
ReplyDeleteBoard members on the task force means that the fox is watching the hen house. Wasn't Jennings someone involved in the Law School/Cunningham mess. By the time all the covering up is done, our beloved alma mater will not be in existence.
ReplyDeleteThis is a damn shame! I'm about to turn into a non-supporter of Charlie Crist. His hand print is all over this, since he discussed the names with Carolyn Roberts.
ReplyDeleteTime for another email campaign? Crist better watch himself.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to take more than an e-mail campaign. RATTLERS need to check the history of CRIST and FAMU. Senator Charlie Crist (as part of the Education Committee) voted against the bill for FAMU Law School. Mr. Crist responded "That sounds like a pretty good opportunity to me" when Chancellor Charlie Reed stated to 50% of black applicants to UF and FSU law schools are accepted. Unfortunately, as Mr. Crist was aware the applicants were in low numbers, resulting in less opportunities for blacks. Mr. Crist does not support the mandate of the law school, or of FAMU, for that matter.
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of the words of James Baldwin in 1960 after visiting FAMU: "Until now the Negro college president's usefullness to the students, to the Negro community and to the state was determined by the number of alternatives to equality that he could produce out of the Southern hat. The docility of the students was the tacit price agreed upon for more funds, new buildings, more land. And these were tangible alternatives, for these things were hideously needed. As for curricular expansion, it usually came about in order to contain the discontent of the negro students."
WE HAVE BEEN DOCILE and HAVE NOT RECEIVED GOOD RESULTS.
We need to listen to those who struggled before us. THEY WERE NOT DOCILE. Martin Luther King, Jr. was not DOCILE. Rosa Parks was not DOCILE. OLIVER R. MAXEY was not DOCILE. VIRGIL D. HAWKINS was not DOCILE.
IT IS TIME TO GET MOVING RATTLERS!!! WE HAVE BEEN EDUCATED FOR THIS PURPOSE...TO SAVE OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
On the Task Force is, Barbara Bowles, a member of the Dollar General Board of Directors which just happens to be Challis Lowe's employer.
ReplyDeleteTalk about the fox watching the hen house, this is the equivalent of bringing the fox in to babysit the chicks.
If RATTLERS don't get out and march (and I don't mean the Marching 100) and demand the education that the Florida Constitution requires, this will go down as the biggest SHAM/SCAM in the history of the state. This is unbelievable. I should have voted for GW. His Fuzzy Math will be nothing compared to this.
ReplyDeleteto anon @ 12:58...
ReplyDeletethanks for the reminder and education!
Rattlers and supporters:
ReplyDeleteWe need ALL of us to call, email, write (snail mail), visit and talk to the Black Caucus and ask them how is that the very same people who are responsible for creating this mess are now the same ones investigating it? And, why is there a board member of Dollar General investigating a corporate officer of Dollar General who is a member of our board?
These roses smell like doo-doo-doo.
I think it makes sense to have BOT members on the task force. Allen is over the audit committee for the BOT. You need to know the history, hear the future plans and gets FAMU take on what they were trying to do to work on the situation.
ReplyDeleteYou can't just fix a problem or problems without some kind of understanding.
Ever had a leak in your house? Don't you have to tell the plumber where the leak is, when it occurs etc? Otherwise the plumber is walking all over your house trying to find the leak.
You have to have some type of internal institutional knowledge on the task force as they attempt to unravel the situation and decide where and how to begin to improve the situation.
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ReplyDeleteYou aren't for real are you? Please read audit findings #'s 1, 2, 3 and then tell me where in the hell was Trustee Allen. He is the last person to be investigating anything especially his part in this mess.
The BOARD OF TRUSTEES (if the can genuinely be called that) have had years to "just fix" the problem. THE DID NOTHING. Clearly, they did not have "some kind of understanding." The Board of any other institution in this same situation, who receives government funds and is regulated by the government, would have had to give account a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteThis task force is a joke. How can people who were in a position to solve some of FAMU's problems and did not, be placed on a Task Force whose central purpose is to find out how to solve the same damn problems? George Allen, as chair of the FAMU Board of Trustees' Audit Committee, was in a position to see the potential for a train wreck before it happened. He and the other trustees did nothing. Ditto the Florida Board of Governors. They sat on their assess while FAMU went from Amazing Grace to a "floating opportunity" and sat by and didn't do a thing. No, the Board of Governors and this new silly little task force are both jokes! This task force is not a serious effort to help FAMU. Instead, its more of the same: Benign Neglect! Were it not such a serious matter, we should all be falling on the floor laughing at this phoney task force. These people will do absolutely nothing--And, I do mean nothing---of substance to help FAMU! The most they will do is say the problems are long-standing, and try to blame Humphries and Dr. Gore and Thomas D. Tucker and Nathan B. Young! This Task Force is a Task Force for the birds. It is an insult to Florida's Black taxpaying citizens and to FAMU itself. What a joke!! What a bunch of bull****!
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