The new president of Florida A&M University hasn’t been on the job a week yet, and the executive director of the FAMU Foundation has resigned – saying his resignation was requested.
Last week, Anthony Neal sent a letter resigning, effective the next day, as executive director of the FAMU Foundation. He’d been on the job since February 3rd of this year.
Neal doesn’t give details about why he was asked to step down, but the Foundation had pushed back on President Marva Johnson’s salary ask and raised concerns about whether they’d be able to fund it.
News of Neal’s resignation comes as the FAMU board of trustees is preparing to meet today.
The board will discuss their self-evaluation, which includes strong criticism from FAMU Trustee Deveron Gibbons against outgoing Interim President Timothy Beard. In his review, Gibbons calls Beard’s presidency a “complete embarrassment.”
