:( We've lost to BCC for a record 3 years in a row.

I'm still glad I'm a grad. of FAMU!!!
 

Say it isn't so!

.:eek:

Hopefully FAM. can bounce back from this.

Got this from another listserve
 

http://www.meacfans.com/ubb/ultimate.../t/003674.html
posted 03 December, 2004 18:14
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FAMU football gets its money

Trips for recruiting, search for defensive coordinator back on

By Randy Beard

DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER

Good news really does travel fast.

The first thing Florida A&M football coach Billy Joe did after getting off
the telephone with athletic director Joseph Ramsey II Thursday morning was
to tell his assistant coaches to hit the road.

"I told them to get their itineraries together because we can go recruiting
again," said Joe. "They can go to Miami. They can go out of state now. As a
matter of fact, they are all gone on the road now."

Joe also received permission to start lining up candidates for his vacant
defensive coordinator job.

The news brought to a close a divisive couple of days in the FAMU athletic
department. Ramsey had told Joe during a Monday morning meeting that the
football program's $100,000 recruiting budget - guaranteed in Joe's
contract - had been frozen.

However, Ramsey said he told Joe the money was only on hold until after he
met with Larry Reese, FAMU's vice president for administrative and financial
services, to address the athletic department's revenue shortfalls. Joe said
he was told there would be no money available for the football staff to do
any recruiting. He said there was never any mention of it being a temporary
freeze of the budget.

But bottom line, the money is now there.

"(Ramsey) said that we do have recruiting money. I asked him if it was
$100,000, and he said I had what was in my contract," said Joe. "That's all
I wanted to hear."

The athletic department still has some tough choices to make, but Ramsey
said the football budget was intact.

"Even though our financial situation looks pretty bleak ... we are going to
try to keep football intact," said Ramsey. "Football is our money-maker when
everything goes well, so you really don't want to tamper with it too much."

Ramsey said that the athletic department budget, which had a $700,000
shortfall last year, took another hit when the school rescinded its plan to
move to NCAA Division I-A. He said that when FAMU announced it was returning
to I-AA status, that Illinois, Tulane, Temple and Virginia Tech each cut
their revenue guarantees in half. Attendance at the games also failed to
kick in a revenue-sharing agreement.

"We knew we were off in our projections by about $400,000 after the Tulane
and Temple games," said Ramsey. "All the I-A schools cut their guarantees by
half. The only one that didn't was FIU (Florida International)."

As for the defensive coordinator position, Joe said he has at least three
candidates in mind that he wants to contact. The expected salary for the
position will be in the $72-75,000 range.

An Update
 

10 Former Students Lose Degrees in Southern U. Grade-Changing Scandal
Date: Thursday, January 05, 2006
By: Nikki G. Bannister, Black College Wire

Ten former students at Southern University have lost their degrees after a two-year investigation into charges that a student presented false credentials to the graduate school.

The former students are subject to criminal indictment.

A former assistant registrar pleaded guilty Dec. 19 to bribery charges stemming from the grade-buying scandal, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate, which said that Cleo Carroll Jr., 56, of Baton Rouge, faced up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

A sentencing hearing was expected in late February or March, the newspaper said.

Carroll was accused of taking $7,700 from five former and current students to change their transcripts. Prosecutors alleged that Carroll took bribes between October 2001 and February 2003. He worked at the university from 1971 until 2003.

Read the rest here.

^^^^ That's good for them. It's bad enough that you get false grades in order to graduate in the first place, but you submit said false grades to the SAME university to enter the graduate program!! How retarded can you be? They must have thought that because their degree/transcripts were already from SU that it was smooth sailing for admissions and none of their credentials would be checked. WRONG!!!

They'd be lucky to even be able to get a degree from anywhere, let alone a job with such blemishes on their permanant record. *SMH*

Did you see homeboy who will get his bachelors and masters degrees revoked?

But help me out with this one:
Takiyah Peoples of Baker, bachelor's in therapeutic recreation and leisure, 2001.

Therapeutic recreation and leisure? what is that? Never heard of it.:confused:

My husband graduated from Southern in this major, it is like recreational theraphy, you can pursue physical therapy, he took the recreation aspect like program planning (recreational centers, parks, nursing homes, gyms, etc) he did an intern at a nursing home and the crazy house in Shreveport where he planned out recreational activites. :D

Soror, you have me CTFU with this statement!! I didn't think that many people still called "those" institutions "crazy houses." I do, but it's still funny when someone else calls them that too!!

I was :eek: when I learned she was in the group. My LS was her babysitter when we were in college. Her father was an admin @ GSU back then.


I was thinking...dayum, we are old. :o


The case still isn't closed. :o

Her Mom taught me at SU actually her mom was like an assoc. dean in the Education Dept. (which therapeutic recreation and leisure fall under).

Richard Dumas is Walter Dumas's son (well known lawyer in BR). He was even enrolled in Law School.

Re: Dumas. I know...

Those kids didn't have that to do, but then again in BR.... (nevermind (sigh)) :rolleyes:


The Peoples left Gram right before I graduated. Dr. P became the Chancellor @ SUNO, then they came up to BR.

Her mother and my cousin are co-workers. Don't tell me 'bout dem peeples! :p :D :o

Suit to Prevent Close of Clark Atlanta Engineering Dept. Tossed
Date: Monday, January 23, 2006
By: Errin Haines, Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) - A judge has thrown out a lawsuit questioning the shutdown of Clark Atlanta University's engineering department, ruling the historically black private institution acted within its rights.

A group of engineering faculty and students sued the school in October, alleging its president and board of trustees wrongly closed the department without first seeking wider input.

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site....arkatlanta0124