Martin achieving better enrollment results than Mangum while being paid $65,000 less

North Carolina A&T University Chancellor Harold Martin, who leads the largest single campus historically black college or university (HBCU) in the nation, earns $360,000 per year.

He is continuing to grow enrollment at his alma mater with strong classes of freshmen students. The NCA&T Institutional Research freshman profile data shows that the freshman classes in Fall 2014 and Fall 2015 both had an average high school GPA of 3.28.

The NCA&T freshman class in Fall 2014 also had an average ACT score of 18.71. That was higher than the national average for black students, which was 17.1.

NCA&T gained a $4M boost in tuition and fees in Fall 2014. It enrolled 10,725 students in that fall. NCA&T saw its enrollment go up again in Fall 2015 to a total of 10,852. It is expecting more enrollment growth in Fall 2016.

Florida A&M University President Elmira Mangum makes $65,000 more than Martin even as FAMU is taking multi-million dollar losses in tuition and fees due to the poor enrollment management by her administration.

Mangum receives $425,000 per year.

FAMU’s enrollment in Fall 2015 dropped to 9,920 (down from 10,233 in Fall 2014) under Mangum. That cost FAMU $9M+ from tuition and fee losses. FAMU expects to lose about another $10.5M due to its projected loss of 920 students in 2016-2017.

NCA&T has increased its enrollment with strong in-state students while competing against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which has a higher U.S. News & World Report ranking (#30) than any university in Florida. NCA&T also competes against four in-state public historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which are North Carolina Central, Winston-Salem State, Fayetteville State, and Elizabeth City State.

FAMU is the only public HBCU in Florida. None of the public universities it competes against are ranked as high as UNC Chapel Hill on the U.S. News list. The University of Florida is #47 and Florida State is #96. No excuse is acceptable for the continuing enrollment decline at FAMU.