FAMU students, faculty, and staffers are all smiles about two big construction projects that are changing the face of campus.Yesterday, FAMU held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Tucker Hall. Chanta Haywood, dean of the School of Graduate Studies, said her students are excited about going to class in the remodeled facility.
"It says a tremendous amount of the future of Florida A & M university, and I think its captured best in the student that said that this building makes them want to make straight A's, and so to me, that says that we're geared up for a straight A future," Haywood told WCTV-6.
Later in the day, the university broke ground on the Phase II building of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. FAMU President James Ammons, Gov. Charlie Crist, and State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan were all in attendance.
The governor told WTSP-10 (Tampa Bay) that the Phase II building is a great investment “not only because of what it can do for medicine and for healing and for helping, but also what it can do for jobs and job creation.”