{"id":240751,"date":"2026-04-21T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240751\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:12:08","slug":"marva-johnson-formally-installed-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240751\/","title":{"rendered":"Marva Johnson formally installed as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.famu.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida A&amp;M University <\/a>is officially installing Marva Johnson as its 13th president on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A historic moment is happening right now at Florida A&amp;M University, as the university officially installs its 13th president, Marva Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH COVERAGE BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>The investiture ceremony marks the formal beginning of Johnson\u2019s presidency, a tradition that hasn\u2019t taken place at FAMU since 2018, when Dr. Larry Robinson was president.<\/p>\n<p>Students, faculty, alumni, and university leaders are all gathered on campus for the event, which celebrates both the university\u2019s history and its future direction under new leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was approved by the FAMU&#8217;s Board of Trustees <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/college-town\/florida-a-m-university-board-of-trustees-to-nominate-next-president-on-friday-following-finalists-interviews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last May,<\/a> and officially became president <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/college-town\/breaking-board-of-governors-approves-marva-johnson-as-famus-13th-president\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in June <\/a>after the Board of Governors approved the decision, ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s formal investiture ceremony. She began her tenure last August. <\/p>\n<p>Neighborhood reporter<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/justin-white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Justin White <\/a>is at FAMU and will have more from the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Marva Johnson related stories <\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida A&amp;M University is officially installing Marva Johnson as its 13th president on Tuesday. A historic moment is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,18780,28,232,234,233,562],"class_list":{"0":"post-240751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-abc-27","9":"tag-college-town","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-tallahassee","12":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","13":"tag-tallahassee-news","14":"tag-wtxl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240751","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=240751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}