Decling enrollment has forced FAMU to slash the Summer School budget by at least $300,000, according to Provost Debra Austin. "I don't think it's (the budget) anything to worry about. The budget should be adequate to meet the needs of lower level, upper level and graduate students," said Austin.Austin, estimates that 5,500 students are will register for summer classes. The budget for Summer School was approved last Friday by the University.
Graduation for many could be postponed
The budget cuts have left many students concerned becuase the scaled back class offerings at the upper level could affect their graduation plans.
Take Tameka Reese for example, the senior English major from Vero Beach who has been approved for graduation this summer may have to push that back until the fall if she can't get the classes she needs this summer. According to Reese's class schedule, the classes she needs to graduate "should be offered." "Who's to say in the fall it's going to be offered?" Reese said. "I would like to be out this summer."
A list of classes for summer school went up last week; however, upper-class courses needed for the College of Arts and Sciences were not posted.
No guranteees
If the classes these students are asking for don't generate enough interest, it isn't guaranteed that they will be offered during the summer, said university spokeswman LaNedra Carrol.
"If you don't have that many people taking it," Caroll said. "We aren't going to offer the classes for five or 10 people."
"It's unfortunate that the students are feeling shut out," Carroll said.
Enrollment dips to 9-year low
Student stuck at sophomore level
Shriking enrollment a major concern
When Debra Austin says don't worry start worrying.
ReplyDeleteDebra Austin is lying. The Summer school budget was cut by over $1M
ReplyDeleteThe Orlando Sentinel, finally has something to say about FAMU (see below), and, of course, they question it's existence. No surprise there. FAMU exist for the same reason that Essence Magazine and other targeted resources exist, African-Americans are mostly isolated. I have attended ABA functions and interacted with many in the legal profession as a young attorney and the message that is usually, subtly or clearly, there is "you are not welome." If you are not wanted, you create your own environment. I want to be seated at away from the bathrooms in a restaurant when I walk in impecably dressed. I want to ready a magazine and see myself during the months other than February. I want do not want to be constantly asked if "I work here" when I'm in a hotel or department store. I'm tired of people being scared when I step on the elevator in a suit/briefcase. I am tired of folks reaching for their carts/children in the grocery isle the minute I start my trek in that isle (by the way, I don't have kids and I especially don't want yours). Frankly, I'm just darn tired of everything. It's a shame that we really have not moved that far forward enough to really deal with race.
ReplyDeleteHistorically black or just segregated?
posted by DaveWeber on Mar 27, 2007 6:03:00 AM
A recent audit of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee turned up a multi-million dollar cash shortage and other problems at the tax-funded public school that mostly serves black students. The head of the state university system says a task force will investigate. Legislators say laws may have been broken.
But so far the politically incorrect issue of whether the university should even exist - at least as it does now - has not been mentioned as a topic for debate.
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University opened in 1887 as the State Normal College for Colored Students. Blacks weren't welcome at Florida State University across town or at other of the state's whites-only colleges for another 70 years.
But now they are. So why do we still have a tax-based college whose student enrollment remains largely black? (My 2003 edition of U.S. News and World Report's annual college edition - I need a new one - pegs the school at 96 percent black.)
Friends who graduated from the college or send their kids there say FAMU is a tradition. It focuses on the needs of black students. It's a comfortable place for them at a time in life when that comfort frees them to study, they say.
But critics say it's a false world, one populated with a disproportionately high number of blacks that does not reflect the real world. They say students would be better off at a more integrated school - like Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, with its 17 percent black student enrollment.
What do you think? A separate school for Florida's black college students in the 21st century? Or a notion whose time has passed?
We have Castell & Corbin to thank for this barrage of negative media!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome and I will continue to do my best to destroy FAMU with every fiber and breathe in my body as long as I live.
ReplyDeleteThen it's true what has been said about you! You really DON'T have a life!
ReplyDeleteDang!!! Well DA RATTLER i hope you got the final classes you need for the summer out the way. I'm going nuts trying to find some.
ReplyDeleteFabian--didn't I tell you to stay off this board, with your horrendous writing skills. You don't listen very well or read very well. Which is it? I know you want to say something, anything, but can't you just get someone to do the writing for you as you dictate the message? I'm serious, bro.
ReplyDelete^^^^I will continue to comment. Lmao, your a nobody to me anyways. You seem very closed-minded, but i'll pray for you in the end. I hope you enjoy yourself, because you focus an etreme amount of attention on me, and i love it.
ReplyDeleteSome please tell LaNedra Carroll to just shut up.
ReplyDelete^^^^
ReplyDeletewho has something against Lanedra...she's effective.
FAMU needs to be an institution that welcomes all races! A one race campus will prove to be one of the past in time.
ReplyDeleteFabrian, Fabian, Fabian, you're an embarrassment. Surely you do not have any kind of degree. Please, for the sake of all the readers who troll this website, do us all a favor and stop the madness. BTW, I'm quite open-minded; that's why I offer these suggestions to you, mainly that you get someone to do the writing for you. Believe me, I understand that you wish to offer commentary on this blog, but really, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. We are all representatives of the university, and you really do us a mis-service by constructing your rhetoric in the manner in which you do. I cringe whenever I see that you've attempted a commentary about a topic. Don't flatter yourself by these responses. I'm just offering some much-need helpful suggestions to you. Just take them to heart. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm serious about this, now, Fabian. (And I love you, too.)
ReplyDeletewhat is the beef with LaNedra Carroll? Please school a sister.
ReplyDeleteThey shouldn't have stopped recruiting heavily out-of-state. That is where all the growth in the population came from. At one time out-of-staters represented >24% of students, no it is a little more than 15%
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