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The FAMU law school was closed through a vote by the Florida legislature in 1965, with the funds transferred to a new law school at formerly all-white Florida State University; vindictiveness for FAMU activism in support of desegregation was a factor. [5]
Many, or perhaps most, law schools in the United States grade on a norm-referenced grading curve.The process generally works within each class, where the instructor grades each exam, and then ranks the exams against each other, adding to and subtracting from the initial grades so that the overall grade distribution matches the school's specified curve (usually a bell curve).
FAMU's main campus is in Tallahassee, Florida, just south of the State Capitol and the campus of Florida State University. It also has a law school campus in Orlando, Florida, and the Research and Development Center in Quincy, Florida. The College of Pharmacy has extension campuses in Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa and Crestview, Florida. [56]
The transitional leadership comes during a time when the HBCU law school is enduring a multi-year trend of worsening bar exam passage rates.
Passionate about the freedom movement in Florida, FAMU alumnus, activist and attorney John Due attended the College of Law to help bring about change. Florida shut down FAMU's original law school.
Last July, 25 of 60 test-takers from FAMU’s College of Law passed, making the school the lowest-performing law school in Florida on the bar exam, with a passage rate of 41.7%.