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| ELMIRA MANGUM, Ph.D. BIO |
TALLAHASSEE, Florida - FAMU trustees on Thursday chose Elmira Mangum, a vice president at an Ivy League college in New York, as the university's new president.
Mangum will be FAMU's 11th president and its first female president.
The decision came just weeks after Florida A&M University's accrediting body lifted the one-year probation that had been placed on it in 2012.
It was not immediately clear when Mangum, the vice president for budget and planning at Cornell University, will take over as the head administrator of Florida's only public, historically black university.
She was chosen even after several faculty members, trustees and alumni questioned the fast pace of the presidential selection process. Mangum herself submitted her application just last week.
A number of people, including the president of the FAMU National Alumni Association, made impassioned pleas for the hiring of the interim president, Larry Robinson. Trustees had asked Robinson not to apply for the position because they feared it would discourage talented administrators from applying during a national search.
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