Fomer FAMU president Ammons named to Southern University post

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Former Florida A&M University President James Ammons has been named executive vice president for the Southern University System and executive vice chancellor of its Baton Rouge campus.

Ammons was appointed to the post on Friday by the Southern University System’s Board of Supervisors.

Southern is an historically black university in Baton Rouge, where its Law Center and Agricultural Center campuses also are located. Other campuses are in New Orleans and Shreveport.

“I am looking forward to helping make this System all that we know it can be," Ammons told the board. "There is so much potential. We have so much to work with. With all of us working together as a team, I know we can be successful.”

Ammons has been working as a tenured professor of political science at FAMU.

In 2016, Ammons was named provost of Delaware State University but decided to stay at FAMU.

Ammons served as FAMU's president from 2007 to 2012, when he resigned.

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