After being dismissed from her position as the dean of FAMU’s School of Business and Industry in April 2009, Lydia McKinley-Floyd is now in the dean’s chair at another historically black university.Clark Atlanta University President Carlton E. Brown recently appointed McKinley-Floyd to lead the School of Business at Clark Atlanta University (CAU). McKinley-Floyd was an associate dean of the College of Business at Savannah State University while Brown was serving as president there. Brown resigned from SSU in 2006.
During McKinley-Floyd’s tenure, FAMU SBI sputtered along like an aging automobile badly in need of a tune-up. Faculty and staff morale in SBI was low and students and alumni were unhappy. During summer 2009, she ran off the architect of SBI's highly successful Wall Street project, which had placed 45 students in internships on "the street".
McKinley-Floyd was said to have failed to deliver on her promise to move FAMU SBI closer to accreditation and was reportedly an inadequate fundraiser.
“Dr. [James H.] Ammons did not appoint me,” McKinley-Floyd said in an interview with The FAMUan. “What I found out later was that there was this ‘Castell Bryant’ stigma on me that I was totally unconcerned about because I came here for an (entirely) different reason. The new administration decided that they wanted a new person, and that’s when I was asked to step down.”
We're gonna have to enroll bigrattler in some courses about diplomacy and how to write off a person after they have left your organization. LOL
ReplyDeleteGo girl....good luck. This administration's lost is someone else's gain
ReplyDeleteGood luck Ms. McKinley-Floyd!
ReplyDeleteWell wishes. Look forward to working with you in some form in the future.
ReplyDeleteDr. McKinley Floyd was actually at Clark Atlanta prior to Savannah State as the chair of the marketing department. She is returnng back there.
ReplyDeleteAlthough not an SBI grad, I had numerous interactions with Dr. McKinley-Floyd and found her to be pleasant and competent. I think her biggest issue was timing. She was coming after a legend which is always hard and people constantly compared her to Dr. Mobley which was unfiar. She was also hired by Castell Bryant which stigmatized her because some people believed all things Castell were wrong and bad which was not necessarily true either.
Dr. McKinley-Floyd was very pleasant, but was doomed from the start and lead astray by some whom she believed to be her friends, and had her best interest at heart. Not the case! The main scoundrels that she trusted were the ones who betrayed her! On the other hand, whom do you think the led the charge to "get rid of her" and who now sits in that seat........to be continued!
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