Parents & Family Weekend
What's the Purpose of Family Week?
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Family Weekend has 4 main goals for FAMU families:
➤ To reconnect and spend time with your student;
➤ To create a support network between families;
➤ To experience FAMU game-day traditions; and
➤ To explore the campus and the Tallahassee community, your student’s new “home away from home.” -
During FAMUly Day on the hill, there will be plenty of opportunities to enjoy time with your student and achieve those goals as a family.
FALL 2023 – THE RETURN OF DISCO
Dance the night away and shake your groove thing as FAMULY Day on the Hill returns this fall - but this time, we're gonna go back, way back into time. To DISCO! Join us as we kick off our DISCO-themed events Saturday, September 23, 2023. As usual, we are jam-packing the weekend with frills, thrills, and of course, that unmistakable Rattler Spirit. MORE INFORMATION IS COMING SOON.
Travel Arrangements and Parking
Navigating FAMU and the Vibrant City of Tallahassee"
Every fifteen minutes, a FAMU Venom Express shuttle will pass through the campus along the new "orange and green" routes that circle the interior and perimeter of the campus.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions.
- Announced at the 2022 Parents & Family Weekend opening and closing sessions, FAMU will be celebrating FAMULY Day on the Hill every ODD year, and FAMULY Weekend during the EVEN years.
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Each ticket (except student tickets) includes access to all scheduled Parents and Family Weekend events, meals, registration items, and (1) one football ticket.
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Yes, students will need to purchase a ticket in order to gain access to all Parents and Family Weekend events and receive meals and registration items. Student football tickets are free; the student ticket is discounted to reflect this offer.
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Yes! The Parents and Family Weekend football ticket is general admission. You may sit with your student in the student section or choose another general admission section to be seated.
- Attendees wishing to access the North End Zone Tailgate must purchase a ticket separately from the Office of Advancement. More information will follow.
- 625 East Tennessee Street Suite 100 Tallahassee, FL 32308
- P:(850) 412-5755 | E:advancementoffice@famu.edu
- Yes. A clear bag is easily and quickly searched and greatly reduces faulty bag searches. It also supports the Department of Homeland Security's "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign. Additionally, it will allow staff to be more efficient and effective in checking bags that are brought into the stadium.
- Learn More
- All attendees will be emailed a parking decal by the Parents and Family Weekend chairperson (1 pass per car), which can be used in all lots and garages on campus. For game day parking, the decal is not required. Instead, please consider arriving to campus early to choose preferable parking at or near the stadium.
- Registration includes access to all Parents and Family Weekend events. No individual event tickets will be sold.
College of love and charity
We gather 'round thy noble shrine;
We lift our voice in praise to thee,
And ask a blessing all divine.
(Chorus)
FAM-U! FAM-U! I love thee
I'll fight and win what'er the battle be
The Orange and the Green thy Sons shall e'er defend
And loyal to thy voice of love attend
FAM-U! FAM-U! FAM-U! I love thee!
On gridiron, diamond, track and field,
Thy sons the vict'ry never yield¬-
And while they tread a broader life
Thy love shall stay them in the strife.
(repeat Chorus)
God ever keep us true to thee;
Thy faith that truth shall make men free.
Shall guide thy loyal sons aright
And fend them thru' the skeptic night.
(repeat Chorus)
