The situation reached a boil last month, when five lawmakers who are FAMU graduates sent a letter to Mori Hosseini, chairman of the state university system's Board of Governors. So had Kelvin Lawson, now the board's vice chairman. … I believe she will be a change agent for the university." By the following month, however, he had joined McWilliams and Gilzean in a failed effort to reduce Mangum's salary during contract negotiations. At the time Montgomery voted for Mangum, he called her "exceptionally qualified. When trustees voted 11-2 to hire her, McWilliams and Glen Gilzean, Jr, who has since left the board, were the lone holdouts. I talked about the Kickstarter for Sunshine Manor back in October of this year.
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The president's relationship with the trustees, however, has deteriorated almost since she began. Sunshine Manor (Image: PR) Fossil Games and Hound Picked Games have announced that retro-inspired game Sunshine Manor has entered full development after a very successful Kickstarter Campaign. Turnbull credited Mangum with moving FAMU toward a firm financial footing by putting in place "best practices expected of all universities in the system." It was clear that we had to have someone with experience and expertise to bring about dramatic change in this area." "And that's why we felt we had to bring in a change agent. "The failure over time to resolve these problems seriously hurt the academic side," Turnbull, who left the board in May, said. FAMU had lost more than 25 percent of its enrollment over three years and had just gotten off probationary status with its accreditation.
In a phone interview, former FAMU trustee Marjorie Turnbull said that when the board selected Mangum, its greatest concern was the university's "long history of troubled financial management practices," which had culminated in a serious threat to its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The 13 trustees found that Mangum "does not meet" expectations in four of 10 categories - organizational management, internal relations, board and governance relations, and personal characteristics and values.Īnd since 2002, Mangum added, the university had had two presidents and three interim presidents. Tuesday's meeting also reflected a gap between the trustees' evaluations of the president and her own assessment of her performance. His suggestion of a performance-improvement plan remained just that, however, pending an Aug. Montgomery has repeatedly complained about Mangum's hiring decisions and her failure to promptly return calls and emails from trustees. "We need to assert a level of accountability." "Ninety percent of our problems go away when our one employee acknowledges that we are her employer," Montgomery said. – Little more than a year into her job, Florida A&M University President Elmira Mangum on Tuesday faced criticism from some of the university's trustees as they evaluated her performance.Ī presidential evaluation-committee meeting was tense, reflecting the gap between Mangum's belief that she should have day-to-day control of the university and board chairman Rufus Montgomery's move to place her on a "performance improvement plan."
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