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But others contend the opposite — that FAMU, starting at the end of the civil rights movement in the 1970s, has received less scrutiny from the state because politicians and education officials fear accusations of racism. In 2007, when FAMU's finances were in disarray and the school temporarily lost its accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Steve Uhlfelder, a former chair of Florida's university regents and the recipient of a special FAMU award for service to the school, conceded that "we didn't look at the same way we did other universities. UGG Boots We were very sensitive to...past discrimination the criticism we received if we came down on them too hard." Other regents voiced the same concern. In 2004, James Corbin, then chairman of FAMU's board of trustees, had made a similar point: "We were not held, in my opinion, to the same kind of rigorous standards as the other universities."