Florida A&M University will choose its next president this week. Each of the four finalists will visit the campus. And on Friday, the Board of Trustees will vote.
The candidates will have the same schedule depending on their assigned day, and many of their meetings will be available online.
They’ll meet with the Board of Trustees, the senior leadership team, faculty and students. At 5 o’clock each day, they’ll meet with the alumni and broader FAMU community. And at least one of those community meetings could be contentious.
The search became controversial with the addition of a fourth candidate: Marva Johnson, the group vice president of a major internet and cable company. She was appointed by then-Gov. Rick Scott to the State Board of Education, and also has ties to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
At a town hall meeting last week, FAMU alumni argued that Johnson’s track record as an educator doesn’t measure up to the other candidates.
The others are Rondall Allen of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Gerald Hector of the University of Central Florida; and FAMU Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Donald Palm.
For the candidates' schedules: https://www.famu.edu/about-famu/leadership/office-of-the-president/presidential-search/
