Education

FAMU To Resume Presidential Search Next Year

WFSU | By Ronald J. Ebben

Published April 11, 2013 at 5:48 PM EDT

Florida A&M University will delay its search for a permanent leader until next year. The university board agreed Thursday to resume the search for a new president in January 2014.

The decision means Interim FAMU President Larry Robinson will stay on the job for another school year.

Robinson has been on the job since James Ammons resigned last year amid the fallout from the hazing death of a FAMU "Marching 100" band drum major in 2011. The school was placed on accreditation probation over concerns of campus safety stemming from that death, and several incomplete financial audits.

Robinson has been working to address the school's accreditation woes, and FAMU Board of Trustees Chairman Solomon Badger says the presidential search was suspended to give Robinson and the school time to address the issues.

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Ronald J. Ebben

Ronald J. Ebben has 50 years of experience in broadcast news. Ron’s first assignment was covering the Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election in Peoria, Ill. His first News Director position was in 1963 at a Fort Worth, Texas, radio station. He carried Kennedy speech in downtown Fort Worth before JFK was assassinated later that morning in Dallas. And he was in the newsroom to see those fateful words come over United Press International wire: the “president had been shot.” Ron served as News Director for Tampa Bay stations from 1968 to 1990 and hosted the “Live with the Governor” statewide call-in show with Gov. Bob Martinez. In 1990, he became News Director of a statewide network with 26 affiliates. From 1991 to 2000 Ron was News Director at WTNT and Program Director for WNLS. Since 2000 Ron has served as :Morning Edition: host for WFSU News.

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