FAMU James H. Ammons will host an open door President’s Forum on Tuesday, November 27, for faculty, staff and students in Lee Hall. The formus are an opportunity for the university community to discuss problems or concerns directly with the University President. These are something the president instituted when he took over on July 2nd.The forum schedule is as follows:
Faculty forum- 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Staff forum- 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Management forum- 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Students forum- 4 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Also see: previous forum
has anything come of the previous faculty forums? has Ammons updated the faculty on the suggestions previously offered? what progress has been made, if any, toward the suggestions made by faculty members?
ReplyDeleteLooks like you have two questions you can ask TOMORROW !
ReplyDeleteAnd, for the record, this is the third forum!
Rattlers should also be discussing the new FAMU BOT appointments coming up in the fall. A column in the Tallahassee Democrat talked about this issue last week.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071120/OPINION05/711200309/1006/OPINION
Article published Nov 20, 2007
FAMU must be more discerning about its leaders
By Larry O. Rivers
MY VIEW
Hero worship is a dangerous practice that can yield devastating consequences. This is particularly evident in the black community's relationship with its veterans of the civil-rights movement.
Too often, men and women are deemed trustworthy simply because they boycotted, marched against or sued Jim Crow. Many of us forget that because segregation hurt blacks without respect to the content of their character, blacks with both strong and weak character fought it.
Attorney W. George Allen's two-year stint on Florida A&M University's board of trustees exemplified this hard reality.
When Allen replaced former board chairman James Corbin in 2005, many FAMUans believed their prayers had been answered. Allen, who helped integrate the University of Florida and organized lunch counter sit-ins in 1960s Gainesville, seemed an ideal candidate to challenge the impropriety plaguing FAMU's top governing body.
Unlike Corbin, who had helped friends land high-paying university jobs while denouncing cronyism and micromanaged while using the race card to attack white trustees he suspected of doing the same, Allen appeared to be a principled man who would naturally fight black hypocrisy as vigorously as he had contested institutionalized racism.
Yet, despite the high hopes, Allen quickly showed attitudes of a different sort by holding former Interim President Castell Bryant's best interests above FAMU's. As one of her most outspoken loyalists, he headed an attempt to make her a de facto permanent leader by moving to grant her a two-year contract extension and voting against setting a timeline for selecting FAMU's 10th president.
Allen exhibited a similar posture as chairman of the board's audit committee. Instead of carefully checking for fiscal accuracy and procedural compliance, he sat idly by while the interim administration spent $39 million without authorization, failed to balance $2.7 million in financial-aid fee transactions, and lost $2.6 million in university property. Bryant's bookkeeping, which Allen rubber-stamped, resulted in FAMU's first qualified state audits and, soon after, probation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
The lesson from Allen's tenure at FAMU is clear. FAMUans must become more discerning in how they assign credibility within the university community. As a form of social capital, credibility operates in units of believability rather than dollars and cents. When a university's constituency allocates this currency to leaders, it does so as an investment toward an expected return measured in accountable decision-making that furthers the institution's mission.
With FAMU board vacancies opening in January, it is critical to look deeper and ask tougher questions to determine whether potential appointees should receive the university community's trust. Emotional stories about growing up in the segregated South, activist backgrounds and fiery pledges to protect FAMU from merger threats are insufficient gauges of character and responsibility. Too many people with those credentials have wreaked havoc inside the institution.
Idolizing any nominee for a position of public trust hinders meaningful debate over his or her suitability for the job. Careful scrutiny of qualifications and agendas, rather than notions of loyalty derived from idealized perceptions, should guide the process by which FAMUans decide to grant or deny credibility to those who wish to speak for the university.
What a powerful article and SO TRUE! Let's wise up FAM! This may be our last chance to salvage our tarnished name throughout the nation.
ReplyDeleteAre questions planted in the audience ahead of time? You know.. like the Clinton campaign?
ReplyDeleteDon't be an idiot. Vote for for the O.
9:27, I think the 8:34 poster has three questions. There are three question marks. Count them: 1-2-3.
ReplyDeleteAMMONS! IS THIS THE BEST WE CAN DO?
ReplyDeleteFinalists named for the Position of Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL – The search committee for the position of Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Florida A&M University (FAMU) has identified five finalists who will be interview beginning November 26 through December 5. The Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs is the second highest-ranking position at the university and reports directly to the President. The search committee is expected to submit its list of three unranked finalists to FAMU President Ammons no later than Monday, December 10.
The five finalists are the following: Perry Massey, professor, Department of Government and History at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, NC; Cynthia Hughes Harris, dean for the School of Allied Health Sciences at FAMU; K.K. Bentil, retired president for the Medical Center Campus, Miami Dade College in Miami, Fla.; James Wyche, CEO and principal scientist for the Presbyterian Health Foundation in Oklahoma City, Okla.; Lemuel Berry, Jr., educational consultant, Scarborough, Maine.
For more information, contact the search committee co-chairs Mary Diallo and Maurice Holder at mary.diallo@famu.edu and maurice.holder@famu.edu.
Cynthia Hughes Harris appears to be the only person on the list who even qualifies to be provost of a Carnegie Doctoral Research University.
ReplyDeleteThe four others don't seem to even have the credentials to qualify for a deanship at FAMU. I agree. We should be able to have a better slate of candidates for the #2 position in our university.
I can't believe K.K. Bentil even made the cut. Are there people on the screening committee who really want to hire another retired Miami Dade College Medical Center Campus president to an administrative post at FAMU?
Pipe down! This is a process. None of these candidates could be hired. Do you have any better suggestions? Clearly, there is a MEDICAL link to most of these candidates. Could there be a Medical School on the horizon?
ReplyDeleteActually, Lemuel Berry, Jr. once served as VP of academic affairs at the University of New England.
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ReplyDeleteYou've made a good point.
We know Hughes Harris' credentials from Allied Health. K.K. Bentil also has a medical academic administration background.
The same goes for James Wyche. He was a vice provost at the University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center. He was a Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
http://w3.ouhsc.edu/BIOCHEM/wyche.htm
Back in 1998, Fred Humphries and James Ammons formally announced their intention to seek a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) program. Additionally, Dr. Ammons stated during the presidential search process that he wants to establish a Dental School.
FAMU already has Pharmacy, Public Health (part of Pharmacy) Nursing, and Allied Health. We have a strong case for a Medical School and Dental school. However, we'll need a provost with some knowledge of the area of health sciences to lead the way.
Good observation.
Med school? Can we first get the COL on the good foot-- good God?!
ReplyDeleteMed school? Can we first get the COL on the good foot-- good God?!
ReplyDeleteLook, James Brown. We can begin planning and lobbying for a medical school while also addressing the issues in the law school.
A big part of getting the law school back in the right direction was hiring a permanent dean. That's been accomplished. Now let's continue to look forward and develop strategies for the future.
Can NuRattler please post the daggum CVs of these folks? DaRattler would have done this by now.
ReplyDeleteRight! Give the new dean at the COL to get in and do the job. This is not MAGIC! It's gonna take some time to repair and reorganize. However, we can't miss out on an opportunity to expand our future; especially with a med school. It should be BOTH/AND not EITHER/OR!
ReplyDeletethe poor, weary faculty of the university always has to wait until everything else is in place before we are given any kind of respect. we get so tired of being placed on the back burner in favor of new stuff. before you all start blasting away, i know a provost is needed. but, geeze! don't forget the folks who keep the university going.
ReplyDeleteMost of the stuff that appears here is already online at Tallahassee Democrat when we get it here. Can we get some new news? dang. there's nothing worse than old news packaged as something new.
ReplyDeleteI just took a look that the candidates for the Provost and Vice President of Academic Afairs. It seems like each of them come with previous experience for the position except Dr. Hughes. I hope the president will consider all his options, and not give this position to his "girl". It may come back to bite you, Mr. President.
ReplyDeleteDr. Ammons mandated that the position is open until fill so if you know of any other qualified candidates they can still apply
ReplyDeleteGuess Ammons is leaving out he COL with his "open door forum" again.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about? No one is being left out. The COL will get the needed attention as well as the other programs. Let's just chill. Pres. Ammons knows all the timelines for critical moment. Let's trust the leadership and stop whining!
ReplyDeleteDr. Ammons could you please sir sweep the rest of FAMU by getting rid of those incompetent, unqualified Deans and Administrators(CVB folks). The faculty is looking forward to start fresh clean slate in 2008.
ReplyDeleteHint: SBI and Nursing would be a great start!
Make sure make your voice is heard at the FORUM.
ReplyDeleteHELLO
ReplyDeleteMy bet is that Cynthia Harris Hughes will be selected as the provost. I don't think a man will be selected for the post because then it will be two men at the top, and Ammons wants to be gender inclusive, even though he has done a fairly admirable job, gender-wise, at this point in his administration.
ReplyDeleteYo is someone gonna kick Bill Proctor out of the open door?
ReplyDeleteThe brotha just don't teach!
Yo! The next time you see Proctor, why don't you tell him.
ReplyDeleteWell there is problem with that. He's never on the hill!!!!
ReplyDeleteYo is someone gonna kick Bill Proctor out of the open door?
ReplyDeleteThe brotha just don't teach!
Nice try, Rattling. This can't be nobody else but you. You stay on this man's nuts more than his wife does. I'm starting to wonder about your fascination with Proctor.
Yeah, looks like Rattling is at it again. There's another IP address that should be blocked.
ReplyDeletegiYeah, it's rattling alright. The poor fool doesn't know whether he wants to be called rattling or yoyo.
ReplyDeleterattling (yoyo), we love Bill Proctor. Now take that to the St. Pete Times and tell them I said #%@###.
Institutional Knowledge, You sould never have to rely on certian people to run a program, what you have is a lack of a system and people trained to enact the system. If everybody knows what the right and left hand are doing you will have no problems. Train your staff, performance counseling, and fire people who are not part of the team. There are people at FAMU that hold on to information, know that if they go the college will fail and you will have to ask them for help. Shame on you if you are letting this happen. There is no I in TEAM or SUCCESS. Self Serving is not cute. Let's get through this one also, a shark moves forward, a crab moves sideways, which one are you.
ReplyDeleteLots of crabs on the hill!
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