As for dawson, this teacher is not even the director any more. FAMU law is a great school for the value. It is no harvard or yale but then again no law schools in florida are harvard or yale. You “blacklisting” famu law does not harm the school anyway what so ever. Get a life and a real job D bag.

OH ANOTHER THING. GO READ SOME REAL LAW BLOGS AND YOU WILL SEE DIRECTORS AND PROFESSORS OF IVY LEAGUE LAW SCHOOLS MAKING THE SAME OR WORSE EMBARRASSING MISTAKES. THE ACTIONS ATTRIBUTED TO ONE DOES NOT REPRESENT THE SCHOOL AS A WHOLE. DO MORE RESEARCH BEFORE WRITING A REAL ARTICLE. LOL YOUR JUST AS BAD AS DAWSON IF NOT WORSE

…and the prof came from TEXAS SOUTHERN, too?
Good Lord — the jokes write themselves!

Allow me to explain: I’m originally from Texas. Acct major attending UT Austin.
BUT — Texas Southern University in Houston (hbcu) was having ALL SORTS of legal/administrative issues. Fairly recently, too.

I believe that TSU nearly lost their accreditation. I’m not exactly sure why but the crux of the drama revolves around the fact that the school’s president (i think) was utilizing school funds to update her house. *laugh*
Back in…06 or 07, I think? The CFO got the axe, too. Please google for further info.

…and get this — TSU was still allowing the d*mn heffa to teach while the investigation was going down!
What was she lecturing, you ask?
Why….ACCOUNTING! She was head of the dept, after all.
Again — the jokes just write themselves…
Sure…maybe she knows her stuff — but she’s a crook!
I’m telling ya….If Enron needs some auditors…? They know where to look!

So…long, interesting story made short and sweet –> My cousin (who attended TSU) ran to UT Austin quick fast and in a hurry….and had to redo the bulk of her courses. They would not accept TSU’s credits.

Now I’m not biased….I was able to uncover a cheating scandal at FSU (between 04-06 time-frame), mind you. But hell — at least ‘the system’ isn’t broken!

So…as you can see, I’ve had my fill of this kind of crap –> Funding issues, accounting scandals, issues with uncaring admin, FRAUD, bureaucracies ‘created to meet the need of the expanding bureaucracy’, et cetera… Et Cetera!
I can’t deal with things like that. I’m not sure how any student can. Yet, thousands do. And I do understand, y’know…?
However….some of my people drive me crazy with their mind-numbingly blind ‘allegiances’. Collectivist mindsets have their uses. We’ve had to ban together in this country for so long. Thus, the unified front has always struck me as being more of a….kneejerk reaction than anything else. Every single time something goes down in relation to ‘us or something occurs to ‘one of’ us’….there is this automatic tendency for the whole to ‘Close Ranks and Shield’.
…which is fine, sometimes. But — you gotta know ‘when to say when’…y’know? We shouldn’t abandon critical thinking…or rally behind everything simply b/c it is ‘of us’.
Everyone and everything isn’t worthy of our support.
On this note, I don’t particularly care if it IS an hbcu. Call me a ’sellout’ all you like — but, facts are facts. IF this were any other place, black folks would be screaming ‘boycott!’. Heck, maybe if we start ‘raisin hell and actin a d*mn fool’, as opposed to brushing everything under the rug, cutting slack and making excuses for everyone, they’d get their crap together and do right by their own!

College is stressful enough without worrying about the depreciation of your degree or a loss of your fin aid (loans and/or paperwork…due to bumbling/fumbling ineptitude from the oblivious fools in the Fin Aid Office)…

So…Florida State, it is.
Applied some days ago. Was delighted that the process was so…streamlined…
A good sign, I think. Some institutions act as if they have to re-create the freakin wheel…*laugh*

…and I’m aware that FAMU has some great programs to offer.
I am. But…honestly? I’d only attend: Spelman, Howard or Xavier (off the top of my head). Maybe even Prairie View. They’re a part of the A&M system now, I think, and don’t have the issues that they were having. Plus a friend of mine attended PV. She’s asst admin of a highschool. Working on her doctorate. 28 yrs old. Then again — she’s highly motivated. Ppl like her will succeed, regardless.

In any case, I feel for the FAMU students and the faculty.
Incidences like this just are just embarrassing!

Passage % Rate

July 2008 February 2009 Difference

FIU 90.6 81.5 -9.1

U. Florida 89.4 64.9 -24.5

FSU 85.4 65.0 -20.4

U. Miami 92.4 61.1 -31.3

Stetson 85.0 80.0 -5.0

Nova SE 85.8 72.5 -13.3

St. Thomas 80.0 70.4 -9.6

FL Coastal 82.3 66.1 -16.2

Barry U. 75.6 54.5 -21.1

FL A&M 67.9 52.3 -15.6

Also, in comparison to most of the other FL law schools FAMU is in the ball park for the amount of time it is taking to successfully get fully accredited by the ABA.

Fl Coastal founded in 1996 – took 6 years to get fully accredited in 2002.

FIU founded 2000 received full accreditation in Dec 2006 (almost 2007) almost 7 years to obtain full accreditation

Univ. of Miami law founded 1926 can’t find year of full accreditation

Barry University Law founded 1995 received a their full accreditation 7 years later in 2002

Fredric G. Levin College of Law founded in 1909 receive full accreditation 1925

St. Thomas Univ Law founded 1984 fully accredited in 1995 on some sites, 1988 on others so b/t 4-9 years.