Florida A&M University — Attraction in Tallahassee

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...

Academically- 10/10 excellent teachers and well rounded staff with diverse backgrounds

Student Life-2/10, not much variety to do on campus, 90% of student are from south Florida, might as well be University of Miami Tallahassee Campus at this point. Not much extra-curricular activities either. Huge turn off from an out-of-state students perspective because there is such a lack of diversity among the backgrounds of the students. On top of that, FAMU is always in the media for something stupid like REPEATED fraudulent funding or rape or hazing.

No Tradition-Unlike Howard or Tuskegee, there is a definite lack of prestige and class on and off campus. You can definitely tell when people ask what school you attend, you will get the an oh that's nice versus a wow that amazing. On campus, more students are too focused on making it daily fashion show than actually learning.

The absolute worse thing about this institution is that staff that runs the Administrative Offices. They are utterly and completely rude all the time and too ALL the students. The ones that are nice usually can't help you and your transferred to some incompetent local. It will drive you insane and waste so much of your time your better off transferring to FSU like I did or go to Tuskegee.

I do not recommend going here on the premise of the latter. It is a living nightmare dealing with FA or the Registrar. If you care about your career you will go to an institution that values its students. The college you attend does matter, if anyone tells you otherwise they are are lying to you. I hope FAMU can one day realize how vile its staff is to its students and actually do something...

I am a student here at FAMU and though I love the student life and campus atmosphere this university will never progress and be an elite school. The administration is absolutely atrocious and many of the staff members are inexcusably rude and inconsiderate. I've tried my hardest at this university as a student I have a 3.6 GPA however this university makes you jump through so many unnecessary hurdles. I mind you I am also an athlete here at the university and get to represent it at the highest level. I am extremely disappointed and dissatisfied with this university because it could truly do so much better. I cannot wait to leave this university to rid myself of this atmosphere and the stress that has...