It's going to take a grant of $2.2 million and $750,000 of a special task force's money to get some problems fixed at Florida A&M University, President James Ammons, said Thursday.Ammons spoke by conference call during the Task Force on FAMU Finance and Operational Control Issues Meeting. Task force members, Ammons' leadership team, State University System Chancellor Mark Rosenberg and other Board of Governors' staffers participated in the conference call.
"(We were) given $1 million, critical to the success of the task force," Rosenberg said.
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Ammons is just setting up the BOG, if he fails it is because he did not have the money.
ReplyDeleteHow about stop building the teaching gym for 40 million!
How about you just shutting up!
ReplyDeleteMaybe he should go ask Lisa Lang for those extra checks she and her son received for years. That may help.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Castell could be asked to donate to the cause. Lord knows she has the funds.
ReplyDeleteI heard the new dean at the COLLEGE OF LAW will start on Aug. 1st. Welcome to the law school MM.
ReplyDeleteSpill it...who is MM?
ReplyDeleteLooks like Mark ain't moving a penny more over the million allocated. Wonder how Ava Parker responded? Parker wants to know where all the other money landed. Looks like Ammons got a whole lot of splainin' to do.
ReplyDeleteHopefully MM would purge the COL of the hoochies w/a JD. We can start with Lundy Langston- the Grand Diva w/questionable law school transcripts (did she really really really graduate from Columbia?) GF told a bunch of us that she dropped her classes like UCC & Secured Transactions at NCCU (u know Mombrun & Saleem had already hooked her up with the notes) b/c she feared retaliation from the the profs who taught those classes. Supposedly she didn't approve the profs articles for the Law Review. Word on the street is that S & M fought for her to get the job as Editor of the Law Review b/c she was the only black who qualified (now we it turns out that she cheated her way through as a 1L to get the g.p.a). Wonder how the dynamic duo feels now? u think S & M were smitten by her seductive ways? Why they ain't taking her with them on the Fulbright?
ReplyDeleteRon Matus, are you reading today? Why don't you look into some the writing of Lundy Langston & tell me what you think. Vicky ain't the only one @ the FAMU COL who have problems on the grammar front. She got the hook-up & the right stuff. But here's a sampling of the "write stuff" of the academic kind:
ReplyDelete"African nations became, under colonization, nations existing to serve the needs of the colonizers." THAT CAME FROM THE O-SENTINEL W/PIC.
"We parents didn't know what to do, so we sent the children..." THAT QUOTE CAME IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION REGARDING THE TERMINOLOGY "WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED" FROM BROWN V. BOARD DURING A NPR RADIO INTERVIEW.
"We have watched, night after night, footage of the plight of the citizens in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. We have watched some of them wait three or four days without food and water. We have watched some of them witness people dying all around them, not knowing if they would be next. We watched their horror when it appeared that no one was coming to help. We saw the anguish, distress, and despair in the children, the elderly, the fathers, and the mothers." OPENING PARAGRAPH IN AN ARTICLE FEATURED IN FINDLAW (someone must have been asleep).
AND... BACK TO THE COLONIZERS:
"When the colonizers packed up and left, for those who did leave (unlike in South Africa -- where the diamonds were deemed more valuable than complying with the international community's pressure to end colonization), they simply left without creating necessary infrastructure. The British, for example, should have developed a water and sewer system in Ghana before they left. They should have implemented some process for the Ghanaian people to reuse the land that had been stripped and eroded, resulting in floods due to years of harvesting without consideration for preserving the land. They should not have simply packed up, with a wave to the people, and left. They should have done something to place the African nation in a position that it would have been in had it continued developing without servicing them (the colonizers) for hundreds of years. HUH???? SO THE BRITISH PACKED UP 'N LEFT THE AFRICANS ... 'N THE FLOODS CAME ... 'N THE POOR AFRICANS COULDN'T FARM ... 'N NOW WE GOT TO HUG AND SING "WE ARE THE WORLD"
Langston said that she taught at University of Beijing. Talk about stretching the facts! It's a little farfetched when for a few thousand dollars, she paid to participate in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation's "People to People Ambassador's Program" (headed by Eisenhower's granddaughter Mary).
SADLY, FAMU PAYS HER MORE THAN MOST OF THE VPs. Has Langston published? Nah. Has she raised any money? Nah. Does she give back to the community in a meaningful way? Nah. Would we want her to open her mouth on behalf of FAMU COL? Nah. FAMU COL deserves better.
Prediction, FAMU College of Law, does not make it an upstart UCF gets it.
ReplyDeleteIt's FAMU's fault and nobody else's.
Stop the teaching gym. Pay employees for goodness sake.
ReplyDeletehow about we reduce some of those lingering 6 fig salaries like Altha's or better yet send her packing too!
ReplyDeleteWe might as well stop complaining about Altha making over $150,000 a year and raising no funds or having any type of success with the FAMU reunions. FAMU has proven that it is not about what you know or what you can bring to the table. Heck, its not even based on what expertise you have in your field.
ReplyDeleteAt the end of the day, its WHO you know and not WHAT you know. Altha paid our new Trustee major dough through contracts with his company, so now she is "politically" insured. The fact that she's gotten EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING she's ever asked for and still can't raise any money is sad, but alas, she will be employed and most likely will get a raise, if not promoted.
FAMU, sadly, is not about excellence. It's about mediocrity. If you truly want to be about excellence, then you accept nothing less. Hopefully one day it will achieve a tradition of success, but it can't do that if people like Altha Manning are still employed at the university, because she has to be the antithesis of excellence in her position.
graduated in April and still no diploma, what kinda school is this?
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