TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- One of the disruptions playing out behind the scenes of the high-stakes political gamble to dissolve the joint FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is the impact it’s having on current students.
This was evident during a forum last week at the college, where about 100 people, including students, faculty and the curious, showed up to hear Florida A&M President Elmira Mangum’s responses to the pending legislation. It came on the heels of late-night sessions of FAMU engineering students and a previous town-hall forum at Lee Hall, where emotions ran high.
It says something about Mangum’s interest in hearing from students that she would commit more than an hour of her afternoon to addressing their concerns. Two questions quickly surfaced: Why now? And how could this happen without any perceived input from FAMUMangum talked straight and deliberately with the students, who have been developing strategies to get the message across that they oppose a move to split up the joint FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. What they want most are answers and an explanation.
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