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Post by Bornthrilla on Jun 26, 2024 7:23:08 GMT -5
4 pages of comments and 5 posts that are actually congratulating the fact the we received $20 million dollars. If I were the anonymous donor, I'd want my money back from you ungrateful negroes... Keep all donors away from this forum and away from X. Yes, this forum has the ability to suddenly delete official A&T press releases and scrub entire social media feeds. We also have the power to delay construction at historic baseball stadiums. We're kinda nefarious like that. Beware!
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Post by aggie94 on Jun 26, 2024 7:47:21 GMT -5
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Post by bluehaze on Jun 26, 2024 8:02:15 GMT -5
That wasn't where the news was first announced. Look at the very first post of this thread. All of the coverage came from other news outlets and there has been no retractions.
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Post by bluehaze on Jun 26, 2024 8:06:17 GMT -5
Keep all donors away from this forum and away from X. Yes, this forum has the ability to suddenly delete official A&T press releases and scrub entire social media feeds. We also have the power to delay construction at historic baseball stadiums. We're kinda nefarious like that. Beware! You know this is where Steven Gaither picked this up from. A representative from the school has made a statement. Why is this still an issue? 2015: Endowment was $20 million 2024: Endowment will be at least $200 million I'm still convinced that people don't see the significance of this.
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Post by aggiestats on Jun 26, 2024 9:13:19 GMT -5
Can someone point to the ungratefulness? Everyone is grateful, some just want the university to publicly acknowledge the gift. Remember, the FAMU folks said the same thing. They trusted their administration. I don't believe anything nefarious happened, but I would sure like the university to share the news. Maybe that will encourage more large gifts.
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Post by bluehaze on Jun 26, 2024 9:30:09 GMT -5
Can someone point to the ungratefulness? Everyone is grateful, some just want the university to publicly acknowledge the gift. Remember, the FAMU folks said the same thing. They trusted their administration. I don't believe anything nefarious happened, but I would sure like the university to share the news. Maybe that will encourage more large gifts. 5 out of 65 posts are actually about the impact of the gift. The University has publicly acknowledged the gift. Every media report has direct quotes from the Administration.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jun 26, 2024 9:31:33 GMT -5
I don't believe anything nefarious happened, but I would sure like the university to share the news. Maybe that will encourage more large gifts. The university did share the news. And then they deleted the news 24 hours later. Which was kinda strange and confusing. It was so strange and confusing, a poster on this site felt compelled to email a school admin to find out what happened. That admin was gracious enough to respond to the poster and explained that the school deleted it because they want to add a quote to the announcement. That was yesterday morning and as of 10:15 AM today the announcement has still not been republished with the quote. Probably not a big deal, but there would be no issue at all if the original announcement had never got deleted in the first place. As a journalist it would actually be irresponsible to not acknowledge that the entire situation is a little confusing. That are not many times when a school makes a major announcement and then suddenly changes course and deletes that announcement from all its platforms 24 hours later. Most times when organizations delete social media posts or major press releases it is because there was an error in the information that needed to be revised or corrected. Blue Haze, professor, westcoast and everyone else here are still free to celebrate the $20 million donation, right now in the meantime until the story is republished. Instead, some people want to spend energy blaming folks who were confused by the deletion instead of the folks who actually caused the confusion.
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Post by westcoastaggie on Jun 26, 2024 9:48:11 GMT -5
I don't believe anything nefarious happened, but I would sure like the university to share the news. Maybe that will encourage more large gifts. The university did share the news. And then they deleted the news 24 hours later. Which was kinda strange and confusing. It was so strange and confusing, a poster on this site felt compelled to email a school admin to find out what happened. That admin was gracious enough to respond to the poster and explained that the school deleted it because they want to add a quote to the announcement. That was yesterday morning and as of 10:15 AM today the announcement has still not been republished with the quote. Probably not a big deal, but there would be no issue at all if the original announcement had never got deleted in the first place. As a journalist it would actually be irresponsible to not acknowledge that the entire situation is a little confusing. That are not many times when a school makes a major announcement and then suddenly changes course and deletes that announcement from all its platforms 24 hours later. Most times when organizations delete social media posts or major press releases it is because there was an error in the information that needed to be revised or corrected. Blue Haze, professor, westcoast and everyone else here are still free to celebrate the $20 million donation, right now in the meantime until the story is republished. Instead, some folks want to spend energy blaming folks who were confused by the deletion instead of the folks who actually caused the confusion. If Aggiestats never mentions the PR release was deleted and if YOU didn't tweet what you did about the PR piece being deleted, I would've never felt inclined to email VC Sigmon. He also wouldn't have been inclined to respond to you on X. Most Aggies are not searching ncat.edu or our social media handles for the presser. Most are happy with the multiple articles and news stories presented on the donation. The FAMU situation occurred because Administrators blatantly failed to correctly do their jobs and a journalist began digging into the man behind the donation. I also want to reiterate that FAMU DID NOT receive money from MacKenzie Scott but we did. The Real Estate Foundation with Cone Health broke ground on the health center across from campus on East Market. There are just too many examples of Martin 1.0, his cabinet and the BOT doing their job far beyond expectations in lifting our Alma Mater to where it is in 2024. This donation included, to which an Alumnus and employee of the school (who watches the money come in and go out) told you on X that "the check cleared." So, why are YOU Bornthrilla, and others, not giving this admin the benefit of the doubt on this donation when they've generated hundreds of millions of dollars in donations during their tenure? You really can't think we would pull something as incompetent and stupid as FAMU's President and VPs did just weeks after their public snafu? Come on, man! $20 million dollar donations don't come around every day. And i'm pretty sure other Aggies told you and others on social media they were told about this back in April. Do you also think they're lying? And why not assume that other journalists haven't communicated with Ken Sigmon and other entities at the university about the donation? if this was nefarious, why haven't they written anything about the school pulling the PR notice?
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jun 26, 2024 9:59:32 GMT -5
I actually am giving the university the benefit of the doubt that this donation is real.
I even retweeted the official announcement from the school on my social media account, right when it was posted on Monday.
Unfortunately, the school deleted that announcement 24 hours later, so the post no longer shows up on my social media feed.
But it was there. I promise.
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Post by westcoastaggie on Jun 26, 2024 12:32:08 GMT -5
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Post by westcoastaggie on Jun 26, 2024 12:33:38 GMT -5
We can put this one to bed, people.
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Post by The Professor on Jun 26, 2024 12:55:16 GMT -5
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jun 26, 2024 14:00:09 GMT -5
I am curious to learn more about the $2 million for AI endowed professorships.
Does that mean we will be hiring professors who can teach AI, or does that mean we will be actually creating AI professors to teach our students here?
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Post by bluehaze on Jun 26, 2024 14:13:15 GMT -5
I am curious to learn more about the $2 million for AI endowed professorships. Does that mean we will be hiring professors who can teach AI, or does that mean we will be actually creating AI professors to teach our students here? Pretty sure it's the former.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jun 26, 2024 14:32:50 GMT -5
I appreciate the insight on how the media works…and how follow up stories can’t be run…but to be honest, maybe some of you in the media don’t understand that the desire for the follow up and deep coverage just ain’t there.
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