University officials silent after duplicate organizations siphon off funding.
College Fix: Following a scandal in which duplicate student organizations were revealed to be siphoning off money from the Student Assembly’s budget, Cornell University is refusing to say how much money the fraudulent student organizations managed to secure.
A “loophole” in the rules governing the Student Assembly’s Student Activities Funding Commission allowed students at Cornell to create duplicate shell organizations to get around funding limits imposed by the Commission. “Thirty to 40 percent of the student organizations requesting SAFC funding” may have been fraudulent, according to a report from The Cornell Daily Sun.
“Certain organizations are abusing the access to that [SAFC] funding, for some organizations have nearly identical leaderships, the same advisors, and the same [organizational] mission,” said Dale Barbaria, the Student Assembly’s vice president of finance, according to The Sun.
Shortly after discovering the shell organizations, the Student Assembly amended its bylaws to allow for the creation of a review committee to audit student groups funded by the Commission. read more
They felt safe following the Clinton Foundation’s outline.
You mean the Student Society to encourage and nurture economic and cultural jihad may have been fake?
Who knew?
Another thing to hassle my useless Cornell Law school graduate nephew!
Will any students be thrown out over this abuse?
“A Fool and his money are soon parted.”
My guess is that it wasn’t a mistake – it’s called “skimming.”
izlamo delenda est …
I worked at Cornell for years and it sounds about right for them. The University piss more money away on bullshit that didn’t work and or wouldn’t work…one of many reasons I left the liberal hell hole.
Expelling students for this fraud would be a start, but they should really go after the professors/mentors/people who indoctrinate, whatever they want to label themselves. They are the ones who should be teaching how to live and work ethically, not how to scam the systems.