TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- The protracted negotiations between Florida A&M’s trustees and the university’s new president appear to be at an end, and Elmira Mangum should be on campus April 1 as FAMU’s new CEO.The sharply divided board voted 8-4 on Thursday to accept the revisions Mangum made to a contract she originally agreed to in late January with Solomon Badger, chair of FAMU’s board.
Thursday’s 150-minute meeting was the third by FAMU’s board in less than two weeks. Trustee Rufus Montgomery made more than five motions to amend the contract, and Trustee Kelvin Lawson also attempted to have a provision for a car stripped from Mangum’s contract, but all failed by 8-5 or 7-6 votes.
Mangum, a vice president for planning and budget at Cornell University, still must sign ...
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