55% of FSU students are women, but 72% of the appointed FSU trustees are alumni men

Source: FSU Office of Institutional Research

Most of the students at the two public universities in Tallahassee are women. But the Florida governor's office and the Florida Board of Governors (BOG) have mostly appointed men to the Boards of Trustees of those schools. Very few women get to vote in board decisions at Florida A&M University or Florida State University.

At FAMU there are only two women in the 11 appointed BOT seats. There currently aren’t any alumni women who hold gubernatorial or BOG appointments on the board. The only woman on the FAMU BOT who has a FAMU degree is Faculty Senate President Betty A. Grable.

But for Fall 2017, 6,428 of the total 9,909 students at FAMU were women. That’s 64 percent.

At FSU, 23,352 of the total 41,900 students for Fall 2017 were women. That’s 55 percent. But alumni men hold eight out of the 11 appointed BOT seats, which is 72 percent.

Only two women hold appointed seats on the FSU BOT. One is Kathryn Ballard, who is an alumna of FSU. Another is Emily Fleming Duda. Her biography on the FSU Trustee Directory doesn’t state whether she is an alumna of FSU.

The third woman on the FSU Board of Trustees is Stacey Pierre, who was elected student body president.