FAMU is currently being considered to be featured in The Princeton Review’s 2012 edition of its best-selling guidebook, The Best 373 Colleges, which is featured online at its website, www.princetonreview.com.As part of this process, FAMU students are being asked to complete The Princeton Review’s Student Survey. The link to the brief online questionnaire is available here. Students must log-in using their famu.edu email addresses.
FAMU’s selection as the 1997-1998 College-of-the-Year by the TIME Magazine/Princeton Review College Guide was a crowning achievement in the university’s history. The positive national publicly attracted a flurry of new applications and helped FAMU break the 12,000 student mark for the first time in Fall 2008.
The College-of-the-Year articles highlighted the accomplishments of the administration led by President Frederick S. Humphries and then-Provost James H. Ammons. FAMU was the recognized as the #1 producer of blacks with baccalaureate degrees and the #1 recruiter of National Achievement Scholars.
FAMU fell from its healthy state during Humphries years after a group of trustees that included James Corbin, Bill Jennings, and R.B. Holmes, Jr. took control of the university. The lowest point came when the interim president they appointed, Castell Bryant, destroyed the recruitment program and got FAMU into hot water with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
Rattlers finally succeeded in running Castell and most of her Board of Trustees supporters out of town in 2007. Newly appointed President James H. Ammons quickly cleaned up Castell’s mess. He returned FAMU to good standing with SACS and now has enrollment on track to reach 14,000.
The Princeton Review’s renewed interest in featuring FAMU shows that the university has practically come full circle from the dark years of 2002-2007.