FAMU Alumni/Current Students

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by PhrozenGenius

You took your opinion, tried to pass it off as gospel/data/truth/the vox populi and then contradicted yourself *sigh*

I'm still trying to figure out where she did that. Especially since I would agree. The reps of many HBCUs (and that is all I am talking about here) are not as stellar as they once were. I am talking from many more years of experience than you. And no I did not go to a HBCU, but my daughter did.

In my opinion FAMU has one of the best business programs in the nation, yet it is not accredited. The same holds true for other HBCUs that for some reason have not achieved accreditation. This has led to a decrease of the reputations among corporate recruiters.

[litAKAtor]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

In my opinion FAMU has one of the best business programs in the nation, yet it is not accredited. The same holds true for other HBCUs that for some reason have not achieved accreditation. This has led to a decrease of the reputations among corporate recruiters.

As a alum of the business school, let me give my understanding of why it was never accredited. Trust, it was not because it could NOT be accredited, but with accredidation you have to change and become aligned with whatever the standards are of the accrediting body. Dean Mobley created a gem at FAMU with Professional Development - at the time there was nothing like it at any business school. business schools such as Wharton and others were clamoring trying to figure it out - what is it that Dean Mobley is doing to prepare these AA students to take the business world by storm. We were just going to class and making presentations, we were interacting one on one with CEOs of companies. We were engaging them with stimulating well researched questions. We were/are prepared to sit at the table with any corporate exec and act and talk like we are supposed to be there. D. Mobley didn't want to jeapordize that by getting accredidation from a body that couldn't measure up to what she already had created . . why when top notch corporations were actively and still are actively seeking us out. My internships were with Pfizer HQ and Chamption International HQ . . .not some mom and pop stores. I interacted with the VP of HR of Pfizer ( a sister while I was there) and met and dialoged with the VP of Marketing at Champion . . .how many can say that? In my opinion, accredidation during that time would have done nothing but hurt the program - and it wasn't needed. NOw that D. Mobley is gone and more schools have incorporated Professional Development in their curriculum, it may be needed - there is a new sister and the helm of SBI and from all accounts she is doing a good job . . . but I think with the desire to get accredited, some brilliant people were let go (former Coporate Execs) and that, in my opinion, may end up doing more harm than good. So bottom line, I don't agree with your statement that the lack of accredidation at SBI made its graduates any less competitive than others. I know several graduates (some very recent) who have been accepted to Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and other Ivy League Business schools and others who have earned their MBA's from A&M and have been hired and the top accounting firms and corporations and the lack of accredidation wasn't even an issue.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

In my opinion FAMU has one of the best business programs in the nation, yet it is not accredited. The same holds true for other HBCUs that for some reason have not achieved accreditation. This has led to a decrease of the reputations among corporate recruiters.

I advise everyone with a grain of sense to stay from perpetually nonaccredited schools, whether they be HBCUs or PWIs.

However, if the school loses its accreditation only for a short period of time due to unforeseen circumstances, like NCCU's b-school, that is given a pass as long as they get their accreditation back within a few months or a year.

[litAKAtor]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

I advise everyone with a grain of sense to stay from perpetually nonaccredited schools, whether they be HBCUs or PWIs.

However, if the school loses its accreditation only for a short period of time due to unforeseen circumstances, like NCCU's b-school, that is given a pass as long as they get their accreditation back within a few months or a year.

Spoken like a person that has no idea about the legacy of A&M's business program . . Once again if you have any FACTS that substantiate your view that A&M's graduates are/were less prepared and less qualified and competitive than another business school OR have information that corporate recruiters during the relevant period (during D. Mobley's tenure) viewed A&M's business graduates any less competitive than than of Wharton or the like, then please provide me that information. And while I am not aware of NCCU's b-school curriculum, I am about 95% sure that it is no where similar to that of A&M's which was NATIONALLY recognized.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by litAKAtor

Spoken like a person that has no idea about the legacy of A&M's business program . . Once again if you have any FACTS that substantiate your view that A&M's graduates are/were less prepared and less qualified and competitive than another business school OR have information that corporate recruiters during the relevant period (during D. Mobley's tenure) viewed A&M's business graduates any less competitive than than of Wharton or the like, then please provide me that information. And while I am not aware of NCCU's b-school curriculum, I am about 95% sure that it is no where similar to that of A&M's which was NATIONALLY recognized.

You're way too sensitive about your sucky HBCU.

[litAKAtor]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

You're way too sensitive about your sucky HBCU.

Now THAT was mature. Moving along.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by litAKAtor

Now THAT was mature. Moving along.

Well, you are sensitive.

[Jody]

From a historical standpoint, it's easy to be sensitive about FAMU. I'll just take one example, the law school. When it was closed down in the late sixties, the explanation given was that there wasn't enough demand for a state law school in the panhandle. Alas, two years later there is an overwhelming demand in the panhandle so instead of re-opening FAMU's law school, it's opened at the white school, FSU, two years later. (PC folks, please don't flame me about calling the FSU the white school, in the sixties IT WAS the white school in Tallahassee)

That was only about 40 years ago, so those folks who participated in this treachery are still around Tallahassee. So if one has lived there, we know those SOB's say whatever they want to say so get the desired results. KMPG routinely sends the most unqualified individuals to work on projects that are primarily represented at FAMU. And if the rocket scientests at KMPG did an audit when the IP arrived and now two years later the problem is worse, WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT THERE ABILITY TO ANALYZE THE ISSUES AT FAMU? Trust they did not have any Rattlers working on the either audit.

And as one of the previous posters alluded, when Humphries was running stuff, the BOR didn't say squat to that man cuz he would beat them down. He must have been blackmailing (or should I say whitemailing) them cuz they was scared of that brother!!!

[litAKAtor]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Well, you are sensitive.

Not sensitive. A proud and a strong alumni of a great insitution. VERY different.