FAMU’s Crestview Education Center will be an
interdisciplinary campus. According to the authorizing legislation, the center
will offer "instructional programs leading to the PharmD; B.S. or M.S.
nursing; master of public health and doctorate of public health; and health
care management, health administration, occupational therapy, and physical
therapy."
Former State Sen. Durell Peaden, R-Crestview steered a total
of $11M into FAMU’s budget during the 2009 and 2010 legislative sessions in
order to cover start-up costs such as facility renovations for the satellite campus. His successor, State Sen. Greg Evers, R-Baker, is working to
help the FAMU center open as planned in Fall 2012 despite Gov. Rick Scott’s
decision to veto the center’s $1.5M operational funding appropriation.