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Redogg
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This is what happens when you let what is politically correct control every decision.
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THE SHADOW KNOWS
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It would appear the students have learned enough to file lawsuits because they didn't want to follow the rules. I suppose a lot of drop outs from other law schools thought FAMU would be a cakewalk. Just run the school with same rules that any successful law college does.The problem is the school leaders wanted to please everyone and in doing so has doomed the school to failure.
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Dwayne
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Look we as Floridians should accept the fact that FAMU Law is most likely going to lose their provisional ABA accreditation. The facility should either be turned into a Charter School, handed over to UCF, or just give the entire facility outright to Barry University, and dismiss all of the faculty & staff that doomed FAMU Law.
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Mike in O-Town
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I agree with Dwayne. If FAMU is denied accreditation this is a great opportunity for our local university, UCF, to establish a law school. The school has new facilities and a great location right in the heart of downtown and just steps from the new federal courthouse.
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UF ALUM
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Allow UCF to absorb FAMU's law school... let FSU absorb all of the other prgrams it lacks in the capital and shut this joke of an institution down.
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Lets Be Fair
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I just hope the same stringent adherence to the requirements for accreditation Barry was required to complete only a couple of years ago to obtain accreditation is required of FAMU. A double standard between two schools in the same city within a couple of years would be too obvious.
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Dwayne
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Yes, lets be fair. FAMU is always judged with double standards by Floridians. The ABA doesn't care about ethnicity when they do their evaluation for full ABA accreditation. If the Law School is as bad as we have been hearing then it's almost guaranteed not to be approved. Let's do the right thing and dismantle the Law School.
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Chris
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I have to agree with most of the post here. As an African American I see the importance of having these HBCU's but at the same time I would never attend one. My brother went to Tuskegee for two years and transferred to Auburn, primarily because of the incompetence (Faculty & Staff)which plagues these campuses.
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Scared
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If Barry were smart, they would try to get the facility, but the li'l ol' nuns from Michigan have let the main Miami campus run wild, and there is no way in hell (or heaven) that they could afford it. Barry's law school is filling up with trailers in the parking lot that serve as classrooms because they won't build a real building.
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Pooh Bah
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They can do it.
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Dwayne
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Holy COW! The state of Florida dropped $25 million on FAMU Law just last year, and half of their students didn't even pass the bar.
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Former student
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My advice to any student who plans to attend FAMU Law: DO NOT!!! It will be the worst mistake of your life if you do.
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PkD
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Mike in O-Town wrote: I agree with Dwayne. If FAMU is denied accreditation this is a great opportunity for our local university, UCF, to establish a law school. The school has new facilities and a great location right in the heart of downtown and just steps from the new federal courthouse. Do we really need more lawyers?
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tommy
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Chris wrote: I have to agree with most of the post here. As an African American I see the importance of having these HBCU's but at the same time I would never attend one. My brother went to Tuskegee for two years and transferred to Auburn, primarily because of the incompetence (Faculty & Staff)which plagues these campuses. What's an HBCU?
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David
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UCF has proved time and time again that it has what it takes to move our state and Orlando forward. A UCF Law School would much better serve the community and be a better steward of state monies. In addition to being more responsible at advancing our students education in the 21st century.
FAMU should not be allowed to continue as a one race institution. If it want to remain black, it should raise funds and go private. If not open your doors and embrace diversity like the rest of us in higher education.
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David
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Tommy, an HBCU, is a Hysterically Black College and University, with a mission that is close to being fossilized!
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Ralph
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Wasn't FAMU the college that had, and perhaps continues to have difficulties for several years managing its financial affairs? If my memory serves me right, it does and would indicate a systemic leadership problem which probably bled into the law school. As far as the future of the FAMU law school, if it can't pass clearly documented criteria, I say shut it down.
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What
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The state spent 25 million and only half the students passed the bar? It seems that UCF in these tight budget times could use the money to help bring down the student faculty ratio.
The state needs to stop throwing good money on bad.
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Thomas
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FAMU not only had 40 million unaccounted for recently, but the main campus is under federal investigation with regard to financial aid money. This is not new, two employees were convicted a few years ago for the same crime. But, did FAMU change? No they just continued on all the while millions and millions of dollars could have been better spent.
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JustPlainMe
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Former student wrote: My advice to any student who plans to attend FAMU Law: DO NOT!!! It will be the worst mistake of your life if you do. Please enlighten me as to what the problem is with FAMU Law. After many years of being in business for myself, and a troubling conclusion to that business, I went to college for the sole purpose of continuing on to law school, and taking (and passing) the bar exam. I did earn a bachelor's degree from SUNY, took the LSAT, signed-up for LSDAS, had my letters of recommendation sent, and then changed my mind. I decided that I wanted nothing to do with the legal system, and it would be unlikely that I could defend people that, for the most part, would all choose plea deals anyway. I view our criminal justice system as a monster that should be put out of its misery, but realize that I could not change a thing. That realization stopped me in my tracks. I could not handle the thought of being a plea bargain attorney; it's just not in me. As recently as last week I began to rethink my position, and FAMU Law is where I'd WANT to go. This is the school that I chose before I changed my mind about the entire plan. Please inform as to what the problem is with the school.
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