FAMU President James Ammons addressed law school faculty in person this past Tuesday and, on the heels of last week's visit by the American Bar Association’s accreditation review team. Dr. Ammons reiterated his commitment to seeing that the school becomes fully accredited and shared his concerns about collegiality, scholarship and tensions between junior and senior faculty. He also stressed that he's committed to ensuring that student at the school get the highest quality education possible.
I wonder how Dr. Humphries feels about this mess?
ReplyDeleteHe and Cunningham sure had a sweet deal worked out. Hey I have some money to donate to FAMU!
Humphries is not responsible for the Cunningham deal. Humphries left FAMU in 2001. Cunningham's contract details were not worked out until 2003.
ReplyDeleteAtleast Ammons is paying the Law School some attention.
ReplyDeleteDr. Ammons is a class act. My "white" coworker said that he is going to sign up with FAMU Foundation to be a regular financial supporter because he believes so much in Dr. Ammons.
ReplyDeleteMy son has 50 academic scholarship offers from around the country, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Colgate, Brown, NIT, and FAMU just to name a few. Guess where he's going? Hint: My wife and I are making plans to attend our first Parent Weekend at FAMU as parents next fall. FAMU WINS!!!!
11/09/2007 5:31 PM,
ReplyDeleteIt's great to hear that your son is going to be a Rattler. From the list of schools that wanted him, it's clear Dr. Ammons is achieving his mission to recruit the best and brightest.
I hope your son will get involved in some of the outstanding student groups on campus. We need more young, energetic scholars to carry on the great legacies of groups like the Marching 100, FAMU Connection, and SGA.
PLEASE take the SGA off that list.
ReplyDelete5:31 as a proud supporter and alum of FAMU could you let me know what city and state you are in so that the local Alum Chapter can send your son a Care Package adn also a thank you note to your white co-worker?
ReplyDelete10:07 - Thanks for offering our son a care package. We have already received packages, brochures, resource materials, etc. from FAMU. Everything is impressive. We live in metro Atlanta and attended this past weekend's homecoming. That all but sealed the deal for us. We were extremely impressed with the convocation, Dr. Ammons, the student presentations (the SGA President & the young man that presented a plaque to Dr. Ammons wife), the campus, and the "Rattler Pride". We can't wait to become a part of that.
ReplyDeleteMy white coworker wishes to remain anonymous, but says he's doing this from his heart.
SGA definitely needs to remain on the list. FAMU SGA has a strong legacy of activism and leadership. That organization has served as a training ground for many fine role models such as Col. Brodes Hartley, who was SGA president when FAMU students launched the 1956 Tallahassee bus boycott.
ReplyDeleteWe need more bright, courageous students to carry on that leadership tradition.
12:54--Do you really believe that deals are made when the person--any person--comes aboard? Deals are made FAR in advance. Deal-making is a world that, apparently, you do not understand. Folks don't just come to the table willy-nilly.They come afterwards, when everything has been signed, sealed & delivered eons ago. Humphries and Cunningham and Ammons had the Cunningham deal sewed up LONG before the sh*t hit the fan. And believe you me, 2003 was NOT the start of anything. Small (contemporary) case in point: Remember the "Training Day" film where the unsuspecting rookie cop says something to the effect (to "Alonzo"/Denzel): "You've been working on this ALL DAY!", to which Alonzo/Denzel responds: "I've been working on this ALL WEEK." My point: Nothing happens when the observer first finds out about it. Quite the contrary.
ReplyDeleteIs there a brown paper bag test for employment at the COL? A color requirement? The website looks like an AKA soiree.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteIs there a brown paper bag test for employment at the COL? A color requirement? The website looks like an AKA soiree.
11/10/2007 3:52 PM
...and that's all that works there....AKAs
I'll be in attendence for the Open House. I can't wait!!!
ReplyDeleteHumphries and Cunningham and Ammons had the Cunningham deal sewed up LONG before the sh*t hit the fan. And believe you me, 2003 was NOT the start of anything.
ReplyDeleteThat simply isn't true. Had Humphries wanted to give such a deal to Cunningham, then he would have done it before he left in 2001.
The deal to give Cunningham a position with no teaching duties was made in 2003. Bill Jennings, then vice-chair of the FAMU BOT, called a meeting in his Orlando office. Cunningham, Percy Luney, Jim Davis, and Fred Gainous were all there and left with a clear understanding. That's why Gainous' name is on Cunningham's contract.
Humphries did not have the power to give anything to Cunningham in 2003, two years after he left FAMU. The real person who was running FAMU at that time was Jim Corbin, who relied heavily on lackeys like Jennings and Challis Lowe. None of them permitted Humphries to have any say in who got contracts at FAMU in 2003.
FAMU is a class act. Does that mean cheating, stealing, ghost employees, financial aid fraud, stolen computer and office equipment, etc.?
ReplyDeleteEven the band is full of thugs! They almost got into a fight with the opposing football team.
12:37pm
ReplyDeleteYES FAMU IS A CLASS ACT!!!
That means all institutions have idioits look at the White House/ Look at the State House Rep. Allen? Because he is offering to pay to give a man head in the bathroom and pay him is the entire institution classless?
NO that would be absurd!
Once again you are an IDIOT!! I am sure people do all sorts of thing all sorts of places!
ReplyDeleteYou are a hater and people like you will destroy themsleves!
Get a LIFE!
Once again you are an IDIOT!! I am sure people do all sorts of thing all sorts of places!
ReplyDeleteYou are a hater and people like you will destroy themsleves!
Get a LIFE!
Ooooooh......
That was a bit harsh but expected from a small mind.
Were FSU fans demonstrating "class act" behavior when they ran onto their own home football field and tore down the goal post?
ReplyDeleteFAMU is so ghetto.....There is no such thing as admitting responsibility. They just point fingers.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of any PA goating the opposing team. That is low rent!
"My son has 50 academic scholarship offers from around the country, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Colgate, Brown, NIT, and FAMU just to name a few. Guess where he's going? Hint: My wife and I are making plans to attend our first Parent Weekend at FAMU as parents next fall. FAMU WINS!!!!"
ReplyDeleteOK..........I think you forgot Oxford and Cambridge.
What about Stanford and Cal?
FAMU is so ghetto.....There is no such thing as admitting responsibility.
ReplyDeleteFAMU is a Carnegie Doctoral Research University. The Carnegie Foundation does not bestow that distinction upon "ghetto" schools.
FAMU does admit responsibility for being the #1 producer of blacks with baccalaureate degrees and being the largest single campus HBCU in America.
FAMU also admits responsibility for being recognized by NSF as being #2 in country for scientific publishing growth.
"FAMU is a Carnegie Doctoral Research University"
ReplyDeleteWhat serious and respected national institution graduates 30 to 40 percent of its students in 6 years?
What is so good about just graduating one race of people?
The 21st century is here right now....come on FAMU join us up here.
"FAMU also admits responsibility for being recognized by NSF as being #2 in country for scientific publishing growth."
ReplyDeleteSo you went from publishing 10 to 20? Give me a break. You are not even the same league as UF, FSU, USF, UCF, Miami, FIU and FAU.
Your mission is outdated!
7:23. If you want someone to take you seriously, you have to have correct information. The band never showed any aggression toward the opposing football team. The band simply had its exit blocked and marched in place until the director cleared a path to go around the visiting team.
ReplyDeleteI was in Section P overlooking the activity. Where were you seated?
Is there a brown paper bag test for employment at the COL? A color requirement? The website looks like an AKA soiree.
ReplyDeleteThis has to be one of the most ignorant statements ever made in the history of the internet.
What did the last AKA soiree you attended look like?
"My son has 50 academic scholarship offers from around the country, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Colgate, Brown, NIT, and FAMU just to name a few.
ReplyDeleteEase up a little bit.
Harvard reads apps after the December 1 deadline. YALE hasn't gotten through their Early Action apps. And the National Merit/Achievement Finalists haven't been announced yet.
So, how is it that Harvard, YALE and 48 other colleges have already offered your son?
5:11 PM
ReplyDeleteI don't know what Harvard & Yale's application processes are, but I do know what we have in our hand. You figure it out. All I know is that our son is going to FAMU. We appreciate the offers from the other schools, but our minds are made up.
6:43,
ReplyDeleteYour son is probably going to FAMU because he could not get in anywhere else.
Santa Fe and TCC have a better academic reputation than FAMU.
4:54,
ReplyDeleteThe aggression is on tape!
FAMU is ghetto look no further than the band. They almost got into a fight with the opposing team!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said..."My son has 50 academic scholarship offers from around the country, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Colgate, Brown, NIT, and FAMU just to name a few. Ease up a little bit.
ReplyDeleteHarvard reads apps after the December 1 deadline. YALE hasn't gotten through their Early Action apps. And the National Merit/Achievement Finalists haven't been announced yet.
So, how is it that Harvard, YALE and 48 other colleges have already offered your son? 11/13/2007 5:11 PM
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Sorry dude, but the finalist have been announced. We have several National Achievement Scholars at our school. BTW, some folks have already been admitted to MIT as well. Once they admit you, you are pretty much locked up and denied admission to the IVY and IVY agreement schools.
What serious and respected national institution graduates 30 to 40 percent of its students in 6 years?
ReplyDeleteFAMU graduates 41.4% of its student in six years.
FAMU's six-year graduation rate is only 4.9% below the six-year graduation rate of USF, which is considered to be one of Florida's three major research universities.
Your son is probably going to FAMU because he could not get in anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteSanta Fe and TCC have a better academic reputation than FAMU.
There have been FAMU haters like you around since 1887. You haven't been able to stop FAMU from getting top rate students for the past 120 years and you never will!
Alot of students in the SBI/MBA program and Pharmacy Pharm D program must graduate in 5 or 6 years depending on the level they choose to attain. To be honest it really doesn't matter if it takes 4,5, or 6 years to graduate. We still produce the greatest number of African American graduates.
ReplyDeleteMost students don't have the privilege of not having to work while attend school, which often times mean, less school hours and more work hours to survive. Some may have to resort to part time hours because at the end of the day, the rent man doesn't acre if you're a student.
*care
ReplyDelete"top rate students"
ReplyDeleteDon't kid yourself. FAMU gets the weakest students in the state. Why? Because FAMU recruits quantity and not quality.