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Million-Dollar Bust
The Texas Tech student newspaper looked into why the university was losing money on a parking garage that sat empty. What they found were prominent members of the university board of regents and members on the alumni association board, as well as owners from the parking garage are all from the same fraternity. The deal was spun to look good, but to date, the university has lost $850,000.
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"Smithsonian Freedom of Information stories"
The implementation of a new "open-records policy" by the Smithsonian Institution arose after persistent reporting by Washington Post reporters, James V. Grimaldi and Jacqueline Trescott. The journalists revealed "accountability gaps" within the institution, and exposed the Smithsonian's somewhat murky adherence to the Freedom of Information Act.
Tags: FOIA; Smithsonian Institution; Lawrence Small; Richard Pullman; Charles E. Grassley; Shirley Ann Jackson; Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents
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Indicted regent skipped multple meetings
Before being indicted in 2007, then University of Alaska board of regents member Jim Hayes, was absent "for almost half of the 2006 meetings after the investigations began and all of the meetings" until the story ran. He missed 30 votes.
Tags: University of Alaska; governing board; misuse of funds; federal funds; non-profit; Board of Regents; vote; education
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Some UC regents missing minority of board meetings
This series looks at the University of California and the board of regents. According to the university's policies, the board of regents oversees an annual budget of over $14 billion and are expected to attend atleast six board meetings. But as these stories found out, some of them attended only two-thirds of the number of meetings.
Tags: University of California; board of regents at the University of California; college education; state funded universities
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No Long-Term President And No Prospects
Politics and the Legistlature's dissolution of the Board of Regents were responsible for the implosion of the search for a new president for the University of Florida, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. And until the dust settles from this recent conflict, it will be difficult to begin a new search for a president.
Tags: University of Florida; Jeb Bush; Adam Herbert; Charles Young; John Lombardi
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As the University of Arizona re-examines its mission in the wake of continuing financial pressures, some faculty, students, legislatures and the Arizona Board of Regents are re-evaluating the role of intercollegiate athletics on campus. Many question the financing of the athletic department and many former UA athletes claim the department tries to exert too much control over the lives of athletes. (Jan. 25 - Feb. 1, 1996)
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Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader uncovers large cost overrun in the construction of a performing arts center at Southwest Missouri State University; finds that the Board of Regents knew of the overrun and attempted to hide it from the public, October - December 1991.
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Sports scandal
Arizona Daily Star series reports numerous findings of corruption in the University of Arizona athletic department in the area of football recruiting, including paying players for jobs never done and reimbursing staff for flights to nowhere. Results included eight indictments and continued investigations by law enforcement officials.
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Attorney general Board of Regents
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No title (id: 1283)
Syracuse Herald-American series examines political influence, mismanagement and hiring policies with the New York state education system and Board of Regents, April 12 - 17, 1987.