Utah State business school on the defensive after student media finds a lapse in tuition oversight
“An advisory board is supposed to meet annually and make recommendations on the use of roughly $8 million in supplemental tuition paid by business students. . . USU spokesman Tim Vitale confirmed to The Tribune that the advisory committee has never been impaneled. . . .In 2015, university administrators entered into an agreement with USU’s student government to create a Differential Tuition Advisory Board. The board’s charter calls for annual meetings and outlines the membership of the advisory panel to include students, faculty, staff and administrators.
But through interviews with Associate Dean Dave Patel and public records request, Utah Statesman reporters Alison Berg and Carter Moore discovered the committee existed only on paper. The Statesman contacted all five faculty members Patel said were on the board,” Berg and Moore reported, “two stated via email they had never been involved with this board or differential tuition, while the other three did not respond.”
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