Chief Risk Officer Deidre Melton, Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer Rica Calhoun, and Chief Privacy Officer LaTonya Baker (Credit: Glenn Beil)

FAMU Holds Inaugural

Data Privacy Awareness Week

FAMU held its first Data Privacy Awareness Week, January 21-27, to highlight the importance of protecting sensitive student and employee information. The effort was led by LaTonya Baker, chief privacy officer and director of Compliance, who urged senior administrators and staff to be privacy champions by using secure passwords and other methods.

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FAMU Collaborates with Apple to launch the Digital

Rattler Initiative

FAMU has launched the Digital Rattler Initiative (DRI) in collaboration with Apple to support student success. This spring, 800 first-year students will receive iPads and access to digital apps that focus on developing three 21st Century Skills—learning, literacy, and life.

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#FAMU Shorts Video - The Digital Rattler Initiative

Nearly 1,500 Students Attended FAMU's Spring 2024 Career Expo

Week Events

Nearly 1,500 Florida A&M University students and more than 170 employers participated in the 2024 Spring Career Expo week events.

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#FAMU Shorts Video - Spring Career Fair 2024

FAMU Alumnus

Otis Mason Passes

Dr. Otis A. Mason, the first Black elected school superintendent in the state of Florida, who received the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from FAMU during the 2022 Spring Commencement, died last month in St. Augustine. He was 95.

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FAMU Announces 2023-2024 David E. and Mary J. Pollard

Scholarship Recipient

Being a first-generation student of Haitian descent, moving seven hours away from home to attend FAMU was no easy feat for Joshua Pierre-Louis. The senior computer engineering student struggled to receive financial assistance from his family in South Florida. Pierre-Louis’s route to graduation should be smoother now that he received the David E. and Mary J. Pollard Scholarship.

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Texas to Roll Out New FAMU License Plate

FAMU alumni in the state of Texas are close to rolling out a new Rattler license plate. In order to move the plate design forward to production, the specialty plate vendor must receive 200 pre-orders no later than June 12, 2024. You may pre-order your plate(s) with a personal message or with characters selected by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Also note, plates are offered at one, three or five- year terms with discounts applied to three or five-year terms.

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Barbara Cohen-Pippen, Former FAMU Director of Governmental Affairs, Passes

Barbara Cohen-Pippen built a career spanning more than 40 years, holding pivotal roles in higher education and legislative affairs. Serving as staff director and chief legislative analyst for Higher Education for the Senate Committee on Education, executive staff policy coordinator for Education for the Executive Office of the Governor, executive assistant to the President at the University of Florida, special assistant to the President for Governmental Relations, and came out of retirement to become director of Governmental Relations at FAMU.

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