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Agency To Restore FAMU's Accreditation, Ammons Says

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Staff and wire report

Published: June 26, 2008

TAMPA - Florida A&M University has received the good news it has been awaiting the past year.

University President James Ammons said today that the school has been told it will have its accreditation restored by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

SACS placed FAMU on probation in June 2007 for a series of rule violations. The accrediting agency said the university failed to comply with 10 standards it considers paramount to financial and academic integrity.

Most of the violations resulted from FAMU's inability to account for millions of dollars of inventory and some contractual arrangements made without proper approval.

A task force created by the Legislature to help the school with its bookkeeping issues reported Wednesday that FAMU has implemented adequate and effective controls addressing a majority of issues raised by previous audits.

The university "satisfactorily addressed" 92 percent of the administrative findings the task force identified. FAMU plans to address the rest of the findings, task force members concluded.

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