Cuts to the Summer School budget have students hoping to graduate in the summer or fall in a bind. The budgets cuts seemed to have particularly rocked the College of Arts and Sciences where a large number of students are enrolled in one of its 15 departments.
Herron Gaston, a political science major, said he was not able to register for any classes this summer because of the lack of upper level classes being offered.
"I went to tthe dean's office on Thursday and they said they would be adding classes on Friday," Gaston told the FAMUAN. "I checked the classes and there are none."
Ralph Turner, dean of the College of Arts and Science, said they submitted 100 courses to the registrar, on the basis of utilizing faculty on 12-month contracts. Turner said there are about 20-25 12-month faculty on hand to teach this summer. "The goal was to maintain a wide number of courses from every discipline available. General education courses have the greatest demand," Turner added.
More finger pointing
The lack of available classes has put students like Charles Shorette II, in a bind. Shorette, 22, a senior English education major, said we classes were finally posted, he received a message saying that the classes he and his colleauges needed weren't there. "People were saying that between the dean and the provost the budget wasn't provided so there was nothing they could do," Shorette said. "The dean was saying it was up to the provost; Diane Spencer in the provist's office said the budget is provided by the Board of Trustees, but when we requested numbers from them, she said she didn't know any."
If Shorette, who is planning to graduate in the fall, isn't able to take the classes he needs this summer, then his student teaching clincal will have to be delayed to next spring. This could affect the school he applied to teach at, he said.
They need to quit all the finger pointing and ad some classes!
ReplyDeleteNo money, just think the 2.7 million stolen, not reported, computer and office equipment could have made a difference. FAMU could have created it's own eby site and auctioned things off to get the funds for summer school. Heck maybe certain people already did. The school must face the consequences. Taxpayers are tired of throwing good money on bad.
ReplyDeleteNo money, just think the 2.7 million stolen, not reported, computer and office equipment could have made a difference.
ReplyDeleteI am absolutely NOT a supporter of CVB in any way, shape or form, but don't get too worked up over the "missing" computers. The property records people don't seem to be able to surplus anything AND remove it from your inventory. What tends to happen is that you go through all the steps and surplus something like a 12-year-old PC, which is carried on the books at it's original purchase price, and one day, maybe years later, they'll come looking for it as though none of that ever happened. Is there some pilferage? Almost certainly ... FAMU is no different from any other institution or business in that. But have people made off with $2.7-million in new equipment? I seriously doubt it.
The place to look when trying to see where the big money went is the $6- to $15-million spent on KPMG (who's ex-CEO just happened to have a seat on the Dollar General Board) and the other no-bid consultants, and on all of Dr. Bryant's anointed (oops, appointed) VPs. Of course, they're the very ones who are keeping the books, so expect that they've covered their tracks very, very well.
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FAMU is an embarrassment to the SUS. To even have the discussion about this or that may have happen, with regard to stolen anything, is horrible for the university and for the students. FAMU's reputation will take years to recover, if it ever does. FAMU's leaders have let the student body down.
ReplyDelete1:29--you just can't "add some classes." Such a simplistic "resolution" not only bodes poorly on your reasoning skills, but it also does nothing to enhance the overall understanding of the specifics and logistics and administrative siade of offering classes to students who need them.
ReplyDelete3:27--who do you think is going to "create" some sort of ebay site for auctioning purposes? Better yet, why doesn't the administration just hold a big garage/yard sale and generate funds that way? Sounds ridiculous? It's about as logical and sensible as what you have offered as a solution to the problem. Yeah, you're right, we can offer to sale students' old sweatpants, curling irons, pillowcases, hairbrushes, etc. Yep! That's the key to the money/class schedule crisis. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThis kind of thing has not been uncommon in the state of Florida. Many years ago, the University of Florida athletic dept. supplied money to assist with summer school courses being added in order to keep key players eligible for the upcoming year. UCF was named "U Can't Finish" for lack of courses being offered throughout the year. And, UNF went through similar pains many years ago. That said, stable student enrollment at FAMU could have fixed a lot, now it is too late. Oh well, that is how the ship floats (or doesn't float).
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