FAMU and North Carolina Central University can finally move on from a controversy that engulfed the two schools in controversy for close to six months.NCCU will return $1,138,228 of the more than $3 million financial aid dollars it distributed to students at an unauthorized satellite campus in Lithonia, Ga. It will be repaid to the U.S. Department of Education in installments over a five-year period.
The students who received the money will not be penalized. NCCU will pay the entire sum through private funds from the university’s foundation.
The satellite campus opened in fall 2004 at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta. NCCU administrators shut down the program last year after discovering that it had not received approval from the university’s Board of Trustees, the University of North Carolina system or the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
SACS later validated all the degrees awarded by the New Birth location after verifying that the students received a "comparable education" to those at the main campus in Durham, N.C.
39 students were still enrolled at the time NCCU’s new leadership closed the satellite. Administrators created a teach-out option to help them finish their degrees.
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FAMU was never really "involved" in the controversy. Dr. Ammons was the president at NCCU at the time of the offenses. And then he became FAMU's 10th president. Are you saying, RN, that because he was president of the former, that by association FAMU was somehow "involved" because he became FAMU's president? While I understand the academic association, I don't really understand the logistical link here.
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