Author: Willis McPhee

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FAMU Inducts ‘Scintillating Six’ into Sports Hall of Fame

Florida A&M inducted some top, former football and baseball players and a track star into its sports Hall of Fame Friday. FAMU President James H. Ammons is also one of the “Scintillating Six,” the title for this year’s group of inductees. Inside: Event Video by Royal Shepherd (coming soon) and […]

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FAMU Admonishes Hardee for Misuse of Time

Florida A&M President James Ammons recently ordered that Chief Financial Officer Teresa Hardee lose nearly one week in vacation time, approximately 34 hours, for her alleged misuse of work time to do graduate coursework. Ammons‘ August 5 decision followed an investigation by the university general counsel who recommended Hardee be punished […]

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Hardee Under Investigation

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating Florida A&M Chief Financial Officer Teresa Hardee and two other university employees. Teresa Hardee has been the CFO since 2007, after holding the position of internal auditor at North Carolina Central University, under then-president and President of FAMU James Ammons. According to […]

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Student Senate Launches Year

The 41st Student Senate held its first weekly meeting of the year at 6 p.m. in Multipurpose Room of the Student Union. Senate President Marissa West, a fourth-year pharmacy student from Chicago, presided over the meeting, which was moved to the Multipurpose Room, while the paneling is replaced in the […]

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Orange or Green? Camp Scrimmage Live Blog

Please refresh constantly as updates will come throughout the game. 5:30 p.m. Looks like Austin Trainor will be leading the Green team today. Freshman Dane James will be the quarterback for the Orange squad.   6:24 p.m. SN: It is really hard to keep a consistent blog going when the wifi […]

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Green For All Trains Newest College Ambassadors

Thirty college students last weekend trained to represent eco-equity firm Green For All as campus ambassadors for the next school year.   Students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities around the country learned about environmental justice and climate change, and planned various eco-awareness campaigns for their respective universities. Green […]

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FAMU’s OT to Bolster Syllabus after Accreditation Slip

Following probation of Florida A&M’s Occupational Therapy program, administrators plan to aggressively prepare students to pass the licensing test on the first try. The National Licensure Examination placed the OT program on probation in April for failing to meet the accrediting body’s first-time pass rate of 70 per cent. Administrators […]

Lifestyles

FAMU among Top ABJ Chapters, but Loses Title to UGA

The Florida A&M chapter of the association of black journalists was nominated for student chapter of the year at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Philadelphia. FAMU-ABJ has been nominated each year since being awarded the title in 2008. The chapter has continued to be nominated for their […]

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FAMU among ‘Best in Southeast’

The Princeton Review recently named Florida A&M among the top universities in the region. FAMU was listed among the 134 “Best in the Southeast” universities in a special web feature: “2012 Best Colleges: Region by Region.” The Princeton Review picked 629 of the nation’s 2,500 four-year colleges and universities for […]

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Godwin to Graduates: ‘Fall in Love with Wisdom’

Florida A&M University sent another 450 future doctors, reporters, engineers and others to bright futures Friday after the annual Summer Commencement ceremony. Graduates, old and new, praised FAMU for turning formerly “wide-eyed freshmen” into scholars and industry leaders. “I am so happy to be done,” said graduate Shalanda Scott from […]