{"id":225272,"date":"2026-04-09T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225272\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:46:08","slug":"famu-sets-investiture-date-for-president-johnson-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225272\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMU Sets Investiture Date For President Johnson \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"544\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FAMU.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>By The News Service of Florida <\/p>\n<p>Florida A&amp;M University has announced plans for the ceremonial investiture and accompanying events for President Marva Johnson, who was selected as the 13th\u00a0president of the historically Black public university nearly a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The school posted online that the celebration will be held under the name \u201cFAMU Forward, Advancing Excellence\u201d on April 20 and 21.<\/p>\n<p>The formal ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. on April 21 in the Lee Hall Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Trustees voted 8-4 for Johnson on May 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A Charter Communications executive and former chairwoman of the State Board of Education, Johnson was one of four finalists for the job.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, some alumni and students questioned her qualifications and ties to Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of Johnson, who is Black, argued that she would be well-placed to advocate for funding from the state Legislature and that the university needed to adapt to an evolving landscape in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775763968_314_2feb62a33afabb2a91d79ebaef0ef1d0e6240306aa2d5bd82b9d514a59736a98.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida Florida A&amp;M University has announced plans for the ceremonial investiture and accompanying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-225272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}