Saundra Inge retired FAMU administrator dies at age 75

Saundra R. Inge (center) surrounded by FAMU President Larry Robinson and First-Lady Mrs. Sharon Robinson.

Saundra Roland Inge, a retired FAMU administrator whose genuine love, care and support of students made her one of the university’s most beloved administrators, died on Sunday, July 5, of complications related to cancer. She was 75.

Mrs. Inge retired from FAMU in 2010, at the age of 64 —after 35 years of service to the university. In her later years at FAMU, Inge served as Director of Student Activities, but many Rattlers remember her as the long-time director of Student Financial Aid.

“I just love being around young folks.  I think that’s what it is most of all. I never grew up really,” Inge told the FAMUAN, in a story on her impending retirement.

Quintin Haynes, now an Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University,  as a 21 year-old student, said about Inge “what I will miss most about her is her thought process and her willingness to get things done and make it happen. I don’t think student activities be the same.”

Tera Waldo, who at the time had been Inge’s student assistant for four years, said “I’ve learned so much from her. She’s helped me develop into the young lady that I am. I love her and I’m so thankful to have her as a boss and as a friend.”

Inge was not only one of the most admired and respected FAMU administrators, during her time on “the Hill”, she was “student centered” long before “student centered” became a thing.   

“Mrs. Inge was one who loved FAMU, all of its students and especially Beta Alpha  where she served as the AKA Grad Advisor for 20 years, wrote AndraLica McCorvey-Reddick, in a Facebook tribute.

“(She was) one of the sweetest, kindest people that I have ever known. Twenty years after I left FAMU she was still taking care of students when my nephew arrived on the Hill in 2009. When he became a BN Alpha in 2010, he called her Soror Inge. She was like another Grandmother to him. She had him running errands for her when she was Director of Student Activities.  She will be missed by FAMU and AKA,” McCorvey-Reddick added.

Inge was preceded in death by her husband Dr. Leonard L. Inge, a retired FAMU Pharmacy professor, who passed away in 2019.