Florida A&M University

"Brilliant! Complete remodeling of one of our bathrooms"

"My thing is.... why does this school focus on promoting sports, bands, and greek life over academic progress so much? Where is the focus for school support causes or activism to get funding? Because the lack of organization and poor customer service that students receive at this school is blamed on funding. HBCUs need to stop promoting the lack of service and concern for students on funding. That is a choice. You don't have to get attitudes, disregard mistakes, ignore emails, get defensive when asked questions, or when someone points out errors and a lack of communication. The reasons you keep losing funding to other schools and battling FSU for programs is due to a lack of business sense. Get more corporate sponsorships rather than keep begging Florida's government for more funding. FSU has a whole target on Tennessee Street. I spoke with management myself and found that out in conversation. Target is known for supporting black owned businesses. Why hasn't FAMU reached out to Target to get their own express store closer to campus to generate revenue for the school? Yall have a whole school of business, and no one from the business department is making connections? Why? You keep trying to attract students using pop culture, sports, rappers, and social events, but what about the academics? This is why you repel the serious students who would graduate you from that low graduation rate you currently have. They want something on their resumes that holds weight. Bring in more intellectual students because they will bring in the funding from corporate sponsors. The party students drop out when they are done partying, and the smart students change schools due to the lack of professionalism and organization of the teachers, advisors who have 2nd jobs that interfere with their advisement jobs, the disorganized finacial aid and student accounts departments, and the rest of the staff who get caught up in their titles that they have no interest in actually coming up with solutions to improve systems. They are just placeholders and figureheads holding positions. It is very disappointing to discover that the adults running this school have regressed and have become complacent and use excuses to justify the lack of service. It really feels like Slavery is making a comeback in North Florida. My daughter should not have gone through what she did as an incoming freshman because no one would listen when kept trying to tell them things were going wrong. Emails ignored, processing transcripts late causing her to take classes she didn't need, then getting an attitude when we requested to get her in her proper class, being promised that she would have time to catch up fir being transferred 3 weeks late only for the teachers to ignore that agreement because they didn't want to take the time to accommodate, decision makers who cannot use deductive reasoning, financial aid saying funding didn't come just to find out they were sitting on scholarships for 30 days and coercing student loans in the process, and just a bunch of other stuff. It shouldn't be this hard, and you shouldn't get angry at people for expecting staff to know policy and procedures when most are not. The reason I didn't give a 1 is because there are some good things that were provided. Trio is a big help at this school. They pick up where the academic advisors drop the ball. The dean of students has been helpful with resolving issues. There are a few teachers there with heart and are passionate about their work. Be careful of the just here for a paycheck teachers."

"Went for a study abroad fair and it was a wonderful experience. Great staff and great food."

"We spent the day at FAMU FOR B-OUT DAY! It was awesome."

"It's HOT outside is all i can say. We are installing the new bleachers for games and its 100° outside and no shade what so ever."