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Originally posted by tsutiger:
FAMU is going to be good. Just a tough time. When you're on top you attract more haters.

Sad part some of you wish for their downfall.

Which would not be good for none of us.

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Originally posted by FAMU CLIFF:
Oldsport:

This audit's 35 findings is an increase of 25 findings from the university's previous operational audit. If the 35 findings hold up, it will be the worst operational audit in FAMU's history.

I am not surprised. This audit was much more extensive and indepth then the last one. Wasn't the last audit an internal audit?

Audits are audits. I am willing to bet that none of the findings surprised anyone involved in the internal audits.

^^^Nope.

jebs appointees have been running the school into the dirt for the last 6.5 years.

THAT'S when these problems started and they have grown worse.

But then jeb said he had "Devious Plans" and he has lived up to his word.

As for the move to I-A... well... that too was instigated and botched by jebs appointees. In fact, the one good thing FOJ (Friend of jeb) Freddie G did was abort that abortion of a plan.

Trust me when I say that FAMU had 22 years of GOOD State audits and that all changed with the appointment of the republiklan Board of Trustees.

Keep in mind that FAMUs Athletic Department was always in the Black too until 2001... coincidentally the year the gop took over... but more due to 9/11 than the jeb stooges mismanagement. Also keep in mind that the University as a whole had NEVER experienced a budget deficit like the one run up by the jeb stooges.

The attempts by these jerks to blame Dr. Humpheries for THEIR mismanagement is just plain STUPID and WRONG; there is plenty of doccumentation in the form of 22 years of good audits to prove it.

We EXPECT oldspot to not only defend bush, but to criticize FAMU every chance he gets.

That's what uncle toms do.

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^^^Nope.

jebs appointees have been running the school into the dirt for the last 6.5 years.

THAT'S when these problems started and they have grown worse.

But then jeb said he had "Devious Plans" and he has lived up to his word.

As for the move to I-A... well... that too was instigated and botched by jebs appointees. In fact, the one good thing FOJ (Friend of jeb) Freddie G did was abort that abortion of a plan.

Trust me when I say that FAMU had 22 years of GOOD State audits and that all changed with the appointment of the republiklan Board of Trustees.

Keep in mind that FAMUs Athletic Department was always in the Black too until 2001... coincidentally the year the gop took over... but more due to 9/11 than the jeb stooges mismanagement. Also keep in mind that the University as a whole had NEVER experienced a budget deficit like the one run up by the jeb stooges.

The attempts by these jerks to blame Dr. Humpheries for THEIR mismanagement is just plain STUPID and WRONG; there is plenty of doccumentation in the form of 22 years of good audits to prove it.

We EXPECT oldspot to not only defend bush, but to criticize FAMU every chance he gets.

That's what uncle toms do.

And believe me, Ken Riley had 3 million dollars in reserve when J.R.E. Lee, the AD that followed him, took over.

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Originally posted by Cholly:
The attempts by these jerks to blame Dr. Humpheries for THEIR mismanagement is just plain STUPID and WRONG; there is plenty of doccumentation in the form of 22 years of good audits to prove it.

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The Real Truth

Humphries not to blame for FAMU's current turmoil
Posted 3/8/07
Nearly 2000 days, more than five years, have passed since Frederick S. Humphries resigned the presidency of Florida A&M University, leaving behind an athletic department with a budget surplus in excess of $3 million, an Educational & General budget that was $3 million cash positive, and a composite cash balance of $22 million.

He left a university foundation with an endowment of more than $65 million in assets and growing, after inheriting a foundation with less than $6 million in assets.

He raised the consciousness level of historically black colleges and universities regarding their ability to attract the nation’s most academically talented students, restoring pride and confidence in their ability to thrive as well as survive.

He left nearly $90 million already approved for capital construction that included a new 13,000 seat teaching gymnasium and recreation center. He left an SAT average for new students that exceeded 1000, making FAMU the only public HBCU to reach that level.

He left behind a financial staff that was never late with end of year reports and regularly produced good audits. Many find this hard to believe, but it is very easy to check out with the state education department.

He was not perfect. There were problems with financial aid during his administration, some of which could be attributed to his unwillingness to sometimes kick students out of school for nonpayment of fees.

So how does one account for the continuous outcry that somehow he is to blame for the current problems at the university. During the administration of Fred Gainous, a newly appointed vice president fired three key financial administrators on an unsubstantiated issue that was later found to be in the employees’ favor.

The three administrators were the backbone of the financial operation and with them out of the picture, FAMU for the first time was late turning in the end of the year financial report.

Newspapers ignored the firings and disgruntled uninformed voices blamed Humphries, who was working in the District of Columbia and had nothing to do with it.

Incredibility, after 63 months, after multiple firings and after one permanent and two interim presidents later, somehow all problems can be traced back to Humphries. No, he was not perfect. Humphries was fierce in defense of his alma mater and was determined to not be constrained by those who did not recognized the extraordinary potential of FAMU.

And so he fought for more money, more facilities and more graduate programs to address the disproportionate representation of African Americans earning doctoral degrees in the sciences and engineering.

He had been a student when enormous inequalities existed in the state university system with FAMU at the deficit end on the scales of justice and resources. Still he and other students like him overcame because of dedicated teachers and administrators who were driven more by compassion than compensation.

He never forgot the impact FAMU had on his life and how important it was for FAMU to remain an independent and autonomous institution. For some reason, there are people who also claim to love FAMU, but for their own personal reasons, have made a career out of belittling Humphries’ extraordinary record.

They say he didn’t have a recruitment program, yet during his first year, FAMU had less than 4,500 students and when he left, FAMU was the largest single campus HBCU in the nation with more than 13,000 students.

But no, he was not perfect. When your enrollment out- grows your physical plant, problems abound, but some times the only way for FAMU to get more facilities was to prove that it had students sitting in the hallways because the classrooms were filled.

Some criticized his recruitment of top scholars, but the nation’s most prestigious graduate schools welcomed the opportunity to find so many outstanding African American graduates in one place. Corporate America didn’t seem to mind.

Fortune 500 corporations flocked to the campus in larger numbers every year offering jobs and contributing nearly $4 million annually to FAMU’s cluster program.

It is time to put an end to this madness of pointing fingers. When Humphries became president of FAMU, the university was in a state of despair. Enrollment was declining, faculty morale was dismal, a number of dormitories and other key buildings were boarded up.

Humphries did not blame his predecessors. He rolled up his sleeves and announced to an unbelieving alumni audience that FAMU would one day become a great university. It did and it will again.

Eddie Jackson is a former FAMU vice president of university relations
Source: Capital Outlook

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This mess at FAMU started long ago...

Originally posted by Cholly:
Why are y'all even entertaining that bootlicking, buttkissing, thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another tom?

They also know what an arsehole our boy oldspot can be whenever anybody talks bad about he massah.

Check my signature again.

LMAO @ Cholly:


Yes, we know all too well how Oldspot (the sociopath) loves to wax poetic about "he Massa."

Check him out here, in all his glory!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6d4tm9ilWI

This stuff is just warming up. It won't get hot for another 30 days. That's when the hyenas begin to eat their young.

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Originally posted by CLeB-28:
Hang in there Florida A&M alumni,

My alma mater is going through similar obstacles and that's all I will go into now.

Hang in there!!!

I am with CLeB-28 on this one (as my law school alma mater is Texas Southern).

Hey, CLeB-28, I attended Thurgood Marshall School of Law during the other Governor (now Prez) Bush's tenure!

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Originally posted by OLDSPOT :

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This mess at FAMU started long ago...

Originally posted by Cholly:
Why are y'all even entertaining that bootlicking, buttkissing, thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another tom?

They also know what an arsehole our boy oldspot can be whenever anybody talks bad about he massah.

Check my signature again.

LMAO @ Cholly:


Yes, we know all too well how Oldspot (the sociopath) loves to wax poetic about "he Massa."

Check him out here, in all his glory!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6d4tm9ilWI

Why is it some Blacks think calling someone an Uncle Tom will limit criticism of their poor performance or poor judgement? Even worse these Blacks think by calling Blacks Uncle Toms who point out Black shortcomings somehow will make the shortcoming or problem disappear. In reality the shortcoming or problem grows or becomes worse. I remember in the 60's when Daniel Monahan warned Blacks about the impending crisis of out-wedlock-births and decline of Black families, Blacks who tried to join the warning were called Uncle Toms. Well look what happened. Do I need to tell you?

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Cholly and Dreamer...along with anyone else I will be glad to go off line and discuss this problem with you. I have been tracking it for a long time. The chickens have finally come home to roast. (N.B. My own school [Morgan] also has a habit of playing the race card to ward off close and necessary scrutiny.)

If the race card had not been played it may have saved FAMU not only this embarrassment but long term financial mismanagement. FAMU and many Black institutions have rode the trail of "White Guilt" in trying hide their institution's or organization's internal problems and management deficiencies. (Read Shelby Steele's fine article about the effects of "White Guilt".)

Any time a red flag was raised about a problem at Florida A&M University - and it happened a lot - there was a good chance race would become an issue.

FAMU administrators and supporters often complained that the historically black school was singled out for criticism. They invoked past inequities, broken promises and special needs.

Such arguments were understandable, but not in FAMU's best interests, say many of the two dozen state education leaders interviewed by the St. Petersburg Times, most of whom are white. Some think the focus on race is a reason the school is still careening from one financial mess to another.

Several members of the former state Board of Regents now acknowledge they sometimes took it easier on FAMU, or granted requests not available to other schools, in part because they had become wary of the emphasis on race.

Much of that dynamic, they say, took root during the long tenure of former FAMU president Frederick Humphries, who often used race as a lobbying tool or let alumni and legislators do it for him.

"Other schools wouldn't have gotten away with this," said Steve Uhlfelder, a former regent from Tallahassee and current member of the group's successor, the Board of Governors. "It was as much our fault as his fault. You could only take so many body blows from the guy."

Many of the former regents are reluctant to criticize a man still considered an icon. Humphries has been widely praised for raising FAMU's national profile and for recruiting top students.

But his 16-year reign, which ended in 2001, was riddled with fiscal and management problems.

An FBI investigation of the FAMU financial aid office led to criminal convictions. The school at times failed to pay teachers or graduate assistants. There were late reports, poor accounting and problems with the spending of federal grant money.

"We were not held, in my opinion, to the same kind of rigorous standards as the other universities," said James Corbin, chairman of the FAMU Board of Trustees and one of the few African-Americans to serve on the Board of Regents.

The school's most recent problem, which involved late financial records and $1.8-million that was unaccounted for, may yet topple FAMU president Fred Gainous, Humphries' embattled successor. It already has brought the school national embarrassment.

Humphries, who now leads a Washington organization that supports historically black schools, declined to comment for this article. But he has said in previous interviews that he is not responsible for the school's latest problems. He also said he didn't push for anything that FAMU didn't deserve.

But it was the way he pushed that raised eyebrows.

"He didn't say "black.' But that's what he meant," said Hank Watson of Fort Lauderdale, a regent for eight years. "He knew how to work the system."

Despite the school's many problems, Humphries' reputation never suffered. Some regents said they didn't want to come down hard on him - at least in public - for fear of a backlash. They would instead ask the university system chancellor to speak to him privately. Or they would dispatch state employees to help the school.

"There were times we had uncomfortable conversations, and we backed off," said Carolyn Roberts, a former regent from Ocala who is now chairwoman of the Board of Governors.

State Sen. Al Lawson, D-Tallahassee, a FAMU graduate and Humphries' friend, said the former president invoked race only when he thought it would help the school get a fair shake from the state.

"Instead of running from it, he came out and said what's wrong," said Lawson, an African-American. "The way people resolve racial issues is to talk about them. ... (But) if you're the Board of Regents, you don't want to hear it."

Cutting corners For much of its 117-year history, FAMU was a victim of legal segregation. The school received less attention than Florida's other universities and far less money.

Administration and classroom buildings were allowed to crumble. The library leaked. The final indignity came when the state closed FAMU's law school in 1968. About the same time, the state opened a new law school at Florida State University a few blocks away.

Humphries, a graduate of FAMU, changed all of that after he arrived on campus in 1985.

Enrollment more than doubled during his tenure, fueled by the millions of dollars in corporate scholarships he helped attract. The school received almost $90-million for building renovations and new construction. By the early 1990s, FAMU was educating many of the nation's brightest black students, competing with Harvard University every year to see who could enroll the most.

The crowning achievement came in 1997, when the school was named the nation's College of the Year by Time magazine and the Princeton Review. An eternal flame on campus still celebrates the designation.

In 2001, Humphries stunned the school and the state when he announced his resignation. The regents praised him mightily, describing his work as "miraculous."

They didn't mention the many corners he was allowed to cut.

Unlike the state's other university presidents, Humphries was allowed to create student scholarships with money that was supposed to attract faculty. He was allowed to take in a much higher percentage of out-of-state students - some years as high as 30 percent - while graduating the lowest percentage of those students in the state. And during part of his tenure, FAMU received the highest per-student funding in the university system.

Some higher education officials say FAMU got more because it needed more. But they also admit to concerns about perceptions, especially those of African-Americans. Those concerns preceded Humphries' arrival at FAMU.

"There was nothing overt, but it was always there," said E.T. York, who was the university system chancellor in the 1970s. "There was a degree of sensitivity about how to deal with FAMU because the race card could be blamed."

When the school had significant problems - as it did dozens of times in the past decade - Humphries and his administrators faced few consequences.

There were no penalties when the school failed to pay adjunct professors or graduate assistants several times over several years. And when the school hired an associate dean it later learned had been convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl, several regents had sharp words for Humphries, but then decided to convene a special committee.

The committee eventually declared the incident a "once in a lifetime" circumstance. Some members, however, wondered whether FAMU officials should have been more suspicious, since the dean had spent the previous three years working in a pharmacy, not a university.

Bill Tucker, the faculty union president at FAMU, said few problems got fixed when Humphries was president.

"I always felt it was wrong for the board to look the other way," said Tucker, an African-American. "I've always felt that they didn't deal with the issues going on here."

There were reasons for discretion. In 1988, for example, the regents publicly chastised Humphries for a poor athletic department audit. Alumni and faculty demanded an apology. They said the board was rude to Humphries and would never treat a white president that way.

"You may have problems. You may want things corrected, but you don't talk to him like he was a little boy," said FAMU graduate Carrie Meek, then a state senator from Miami who later became one of the first African-Americans from Florida elected to Congress since Reconstruction. "You don't let it be a demeaning thing."

Guilt complex Watson, the former regent, said Humphries was particularly skilled at feeding what he called the board's "guilt complex."

When the regents considered curbing the number of FAMU students who did not meet the state's minimum admission requirements, Humphries warned against doing anything that would reduce minority participation in higher education. When the regents asked for a review of FAMU's educational mission, he asked why the school was being singled out.

And when FAMU lobbied to have its law school restored after three decades, Humphries told the regents it was the least they could do. "This is a chance for the state to wipe out an onerous act, to rectify a wrong," he said.

That was classic Humphries, who often fought for FAMU's growth by reminding regents of the racial prejudice Florida leaders had inflicted on the school for decades.

"Fred Humphries comes out of a different era in which the black community did suffer," said Cecilia Bryant of Jacksonville, a regent from 1982 to 1989. "If you are him, maybe you always wonder if someone says no, you always wonder if it's because of race. ... Those who didn't come from that, they can't understand."

Humphries often worked through surrogates, influential alumni or black legislators such as Lawson and former state Sen. Betty Holzendorf of Jacksonville.

Lawson said Humphries repeatedly had to remind the regents about a federal Office of Civil Rights order that required the state to spend millions of extra dollars on programs and buildings at FAMU.

The regents understand the need for extra money, but some wondered when it would end.

"At what point do you say you're caught up?" Bryant asked.

Jon Moyle, a regent for a decade from West Palm Beach, said he was never offended by Humphries' tactics. Presidents, he said, were expected to lobby hard for their schools.

Betty Castor often spoke of the University of South Florida's urban mission. John Hitt stressed the University of Central Florida's close proximity to the Space Coast. Mitch Maidique emphasized Florida International University's predominantly Hispanic student body in Miami.

"He did what was necessary," said Cecil Keene of St. Petersburg, an African American who served as a regent from 1987 to 1993. "He brought it up, but I was never afraid of it. I wasn't going to be embarrassed about it."

Charles Reed, the university chancellor for much of Humphries' tenure, said Humphries never invoked race in any of their conversations. He said he wouldn't have allowed it.

"I would have kicked Fred's a-- till his nose bled, and Fred knew that," said Reed, now a university chancellor in California.

Adam Herbert, the state's first African-American chancellor and Reed's successor, had a different experience.

Soon after taking over, Herbert announced a plan to place each of the state's universities into a category suitable to its size, status and mission. He put FAMU in the "comprehensive" category, a designation that placed it among the state's smallest and newest schools.

Many FAMU supporters called the plan racist and accused Herbert of being insensitive to the effects of segregation. Students took to the streets in protest. Some said the plan was really designed to protect predominantly white FSU by limiting FAMU's growth.

Humphries was conspicuously quiet during much of the clamor. When asked whether he thought there was any validity to the FSU theory, he said he didn't know. But he said he would be interested in finding out.

Herbert declined to be interviewed for this story. In the end, he agreed to reclassify FAMU as a "comprehensive/doctoral" institution.

The category was created especially for the school, which had it all to its own.

Crisis mode FAMU made national headlines in November after the Times reported its latest financial mess, which came to light after the school missed the deadline to turn in annual financial statements accounting for more than $100-million of taxpayer money spent last year. Without those reports, Florida's bond and credit ratings were in jeopardy.

State officials refused to issue paychecks to 19 top FAMU administrators until the school turned over the records. It complied - six weeks late - but its books were still out of balance by $1.8-million. That money was finally accounted for last month.

Gainous, Humphries' successor and a FAMU alumnus, said he is working to solve the problems. But it will take time to turn around, he said. Meanwhile, his job remains in jeopardy, and the criticism keeps coming.

Just last week, state Sen. Les Miller, D-Tampa, grew frustrated when questioning Gainous at a Senate education appropriations committee meeting.

"To have people continuously say FAMU can't do things because it is a predominantly black university is a bunch of bull," said Miller, the committee's only black member. "FAMU will have standards, and those standards will have to be in place just like any other university."

- Staff writer Lucy Morgan and researchers Kitty Bennett and Cathy Wos contributed to this report.

Problems at FAMU Here is a partial list of the financial and administrative problems that have dogged Florida A&M University in recent years:

1995: A state audit into FAMU's financial aid office shows missed deadlines, overpayments, reporting errors, mathematical miscalculations and trouble tracking the status of student borrowers.

1995: The school loses track of 22 campus cell phones, leaving them open for abuse.

1996-97: The administrator of a federal grant hires her live-in boyfriend to be the program's computer specialist. Despite a state report outlining the problem, he continues to work for the school and be paid by the grant.

1997: The state threatens to decertify the FAMU Boosters because the fundraising group fails to give audited financial statements to the state for two years.

1997: A number of adjunct professors go without pay for several weeks because the school has overspent its $1-million adjunct faculty budget by $500,000.

1997-1999: A state audit shows poor accounting methods and spending guidelines that cost the foundation $350,000. The report also raises questions about Humphries and other top administrators using money for Christmas gifts and jewelry.

1998: A number of graduate assistants are paid two or more weeks late.

1998: The FBI, U.S. Department of Education and Florida Department of Law Enforcement launch an investigation into missing money at the financial aid office.

1999: A number of adjunct professors go without pay for six weeks.

1999: A state audit shows the financial aid office awarded $300,000 more than was authorized by paying students who weren't qualified academically and by giving too much money to students who were qualified.

2000: Federal authorities arrest a financial aid officer charged with soliciting and accepting bribes from students in exchange for submitting fake records for extra aid. At least two other employees and 13 students are thought to be involved in the scheme, which dates to 1996.

2000: The school hires an associate dean, then learns he has been convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl in Texas. He resigns when it becomes public.

2001: FAMU's longtime education dean is charged with stealing $60,000.

2001: State auditors launch an investigation into why Humphries used most of the money in accounts for two $1-million chairs at the business school on student scholarships and not faculty.

2003: New FAMU president Fred Gainous fires the administrator of a federal grant after an internal inquiry uncovers questionable spending, including tens of thousands of dollars spent on trips for Humphries, who is working as a consultant.

2003: Gainous discovers Humphries' construction budgets since 1990 are off by more than $3-million. About $1.5-million is used to pay contractors who have not been paid in years.

- Sources: Interviews, inspector general reports, meeting minutes and Times archives. Compiled by staff writer Anita Kumar and researcher Kitty Bennett

Challis Lowe's comment that the current FAMU-pay debacle is to be blamed on previous administrations is totally absurd. Bryant has been the FAMU President for 2.5 years. Such a complete meltdown has not occurred during these 2.5 years. Why did it occur now? As I pointed out before, Bryant is personally at fault for not acting on the employment papers in a timely manner. This however is only the latest piece of negligence and malfeasance foisted on FAMU by this pack of cast-offs from the real world. The only thing Bryant seems to be able to do is fire people and replace them with people less competent than the ones she fired. The FAMU administration is in a state of complete chaos.

This is a history lesson for my friend Hollywood, who does not know the history of FAMU's finical issues. This is an artical from my friend Roosevelt Wilson. So, Hollywood stew on this and throw your race card at someone else.

FAMU Audit Reveals Serious Problems
By Roosevelt Wilson

Florida A&M University has a lot of explaining to do , according to the
preliminary and tentative findings of a state audit covering President Fred
Gainous' first full calendar year at the university.

The audit, conducted by the state's auditor general's office, covers the
period of Jan. 1, 2003 through Dec. 31, 2003 "and selected transactions through June 30, 2004."

Gainous assumed the FAMU presidency July 1, 2003.

Called "one of the worst" he has seen by one state official, the audit lists
16 findings that critize the FAMU administrative operation for everything
from the the failed Urban Broadcasting Company television contract to
inconsistencies among departments in reporting faculty activity.

The document, which also contains recommendations for addressing the
findings, is preliminary and tentative because FAMU has not responded to the findings.

Larry Reese, FAMU vice president for fiscal and administrative affairs, tod
the Capital Outlook last week, "We have just received the report and we have 30 days to respond." However, he said his will be working to get a response ready by the Sept. 14 meeting of the FAMU Board of Trustees.

The audit's first finding seems to contradict reasons given by FAMU for the delay in submitting financial reports that caused the university so much public embarrassment and led to the withholding of paychecks for some employees, including Gainous'.

FAMU officials said the delay was because the books of the previous
administration were not balanced, but the audit finding says it was because all the people who had prepared previous reports had been fired and along with them went the institutional memory.

The official summary of the findings follows:

Finding No. 1: The University terminated staff that previously prepared the financial statements without providing adequate knowledge transfer and training to the new financial statement prepares. Consequently, the University incurred an additional expense of $80,000 for an accounting firm to assist in the preparation of the financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2003.

Finding No. 2: Bank reconciliations were untimely, incomplete, contained
numerous errors, and indicated a lack of understanding on the part of the
preparer.

Finding No. 3 deficiencies in the University's check writing system for
local bank accounts included the potential for unauthorized access to the check writing machine, duplicate checks issued without detection, checks written without approval, and incomplete written procedures.

Finding No. 4: Deficiencies in the administration of electronic fund
transfer included incompatible employee duties, lack of restrictions on accounts to which transfers can be made and the amounts that can be transferred, and lack of documentation for processing transfers.

Finding No.5 Journal vouchers (manual accounting entries) were not
adequately documented and controlled.

Finding No. 6: The University entered into a contract with a contractor
without soliciting competitive proposals or exercising due diligence, resulting, in part, in additional costs to the University and a shortfall in the Athletic department of approximately $950,000.

Finding No. 7: We noted some deficiencies in the University's monitoring of its contracts for auxiliary operations.

Finding No.8: We again noted that vendors were not always paid in a timely manner.

Finding No. 9: We again noted that medical providers were not paid timely for services rendered to the University's student athletes.

Finding No. 10: The University's purchase of passenger vehicles does not
always appear to be cost effective.

Finding No. 11: Cellular phone charges have more than doubled since the year ended June 30, 2003. However, the University had no coordinated procedure for determining the most economic and efficient use of cellular phones.

Finding No. 12: The University did not perform a complete and timely annual physical inventory of its tangible personal property for the year ended June 30, 2003, contrary to law.

Finding No. 13: The University paid three employees as independent
contractors even though they were performing their normal University duties. This practice does not comply with Internal Revenue Service regulations regarding employees and independent contractors.

Finding No. 14: The University is in the process of reviewing and closing
over 900 expired contract and grant accounts that had either positive or
negative cash balances. However, because of the age of many of the grant accounts, the likelihood of collecting amounts due is low and may result in a significant loss to the University.

Finding No. 15: The University administers a scholarship program in which there is inadequate monitoring of the number of students awarded, the amount of money available to pay the students, and the record keeping for actual awards and disbursements.

Finding No. 16: Work effort reported on the faculty activity reports was
inconsistent among departments, resulting in a decreased ability to evaluate comparability of work effort or determine optimum faculty workload.

More detail
Each of the findings is discussed in more detail in the "Findings and
Recommendations" section of the audit. For example, details of Finding No. 6 regarding the UBC agreement points out: "The Athletic Department increased its operating budget by the anticipated $1.5 million revenue expected from the contract. The The Department's expenses, as of May 2004 for the 2003-04 fiscal year, exceeded available revenues by approximately $3.45 million. After spending available reserves, this left a deficit of approximately $950,000."

Under Finding No. 11 regarding cell phones, the audit says, in part:
"Cellular phone charges for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003, totaled $59,771. Charges from July 1, 2003, through April 2004, more than doubled to $123,020."

Among other notes about control: "University management had no knowledge of the number of minutes used by employees, the number of calling plans, or the number of phones in use."

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Damn, I am not even a corral snake and I am ready to cry.

I think the moderators should close this now. I will be glad to continue a discussion or dialogue with anyone who cares in MOM. Oh that's of course if I can get in MOM. If I can't carry on a monologue with yourself...

Reading those findings, a lot of them are minor. A lot of document control, reporting, failure to review, and lack of a prodcedure.

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Originally posted by jag4life:
Reading those findings, a lot of them are minor. A lot of document control, reporting, failure to review, and lack of a prodcedure.

I have a list of more serious violations.

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Originally posted by oldsport:

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Originally posted by jag4life:
Reading those findings, a lot of them are minor. A lot of document control, reporting, failure to review, and lack of a prodcedure.

I have a list of more serious violations.

But you thought your point was made from those 16 or so you already listed.