FAMU's president and the Board of Trustees will meet tomorrow and Thursday to agree upon a set of goals, along with metrics to measure success in achieving those outcomes for the 2021-22 school year. Among the goals they are expected to discuss are improving FAMU’s FTIC four-year graduation rate from 34.6 percent (for the 2016-20 cohort, the last year reported in the university’s accountability plan) to 38 percent. The university fell short of its 2020 goal of 35 percent in this category by just .04 percent. The board will also ask President Larry Robinson to focus on improving the retention rate of students moving from the freshman level to the sophomore level to 90 percent, up from 82.2 percent for the 2019-20 school year (the last year reported in university’s accountability plan). The target goal that year was 86 percent. They are also expected to ask Robinson, and his team, to double down and develop, and execute an action, a plan to improve first-time licensure passage rates to 80 percent for nursing and law grads, 88 percent for pharmacy grads, and 87 percent for physical therapy grads. This is a tall ask of the Board considering passage rates for first-time passage rates in nursing was just 67 percent, law 58 percent, pharmacy 83 percent, and physical therapy 83 percent for the class of 2020. The Board is also expected to discuss with Robinson a contract extension through December 13, 2022. It is the current custom of the Florida Board of Governors to only allow university Boards of Trustees to offer University Presidents one-year contract extensions.
