Better late than never; Mangum’s staff completes FAMU.edu Trustee Directory updates

On Monday, the administration of President Elmira Mangum finally finished updating the Board of Trustees (BOT) directory on FAMU.edu.

The Florida Board of Governors made 20 appointments to public university boards on January 21, including the selection of Thomas Dortch Jr. and Craig Reed for the FAMU BOT. At the University of Florida, the BOT webpage was updated promptly to include its new trustee. But the FAMU.edu Trustee Directory was incomplete for weeks.

Slow updates to the online Trustee Directory have been a continuing problem within the current administration. Gov. Rick Scott appointed Matthew Carter, David Lawrence Jr., and Gary McCoy to the BOT on December 18, 2015. But Mangum’s team didn’t bother to update the FAMU Trustee Directory to add them until after New Year’s Day.

The Mangum administration hasn’t always been this slow with Trustee Directory updates. Back when former Trustees Rufus Montgomery and Spurgeon McWilliams resigned, their information was deleted from the website very quickly.