导出博客文章COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Audits have been ordered for South Carolinas three research
universities after revelations that their trustees spent hundreds of thousands
of dollars on luxury hotels, expensive dinners and travel to football games.The
South Carolinas Commission on Higher Educations director, Gary Glenn, said the
state inspector general was being asked Friday to review alleged excessive
spending by the boards overseeing Clemson, the University of South Carolina and
the Medical University of South Carolina.The commission voted unanimously
Thursday to request the audits after a report by The Post and Courier of
Charleston that MUSC board members were reimbursed $560,000 over five years for
spending on luxury hotels, dining and alcohol while in Charleston for
meetings.While the article focused on MUSCs board, the newspaper reported
finding that Clemsons governing board spent more -- $750,000 since 2011 -- and
that trustees of USC, the states largest university, spent less than $400,000 in
that time frame. Clemson and USC boards each spent more than $100,000 on
football travel.In an environment of skyrocketing costs and runaway spending in
higher education, the timing of this news article could not be worse, commission
Chairman Tim Hofferth said in a prepared statement. The agencys responsibility
is to protect the students, families, and taxpayers of South Carolina. In order
to properly address this situation, the first step is to be proactive in trying
to find the facts.He said commissioners would decide how to respond after
getting the audits results. That could take months.Its unclear what they could
do.MUSC officials contend most of their reimbursements come not from public
money, but from a private nonprofit corporation set up to benefit the medical
universitys hospital.An exemption in state law allows university trustees to set
their own travel expense rates, and use money made from student athletics,
activities, canteens and bookstores to reimburse trustees above normal per
diems.According to the newspaper, MUSC trustees hotel stays accounted for nearly
$100,000 of the spending, with rooms at Charleston Place and Planters Inn. Other
expenses during the trustees six or so meetings annually included $37,400 on a
2014 Christmas banquet, $160 bottles of wine, and dining at the citys finest
restaurants, regularly including trustees family members and other guests.MUSC
spending guidelines, set by the trustees, allow reimbursements to pick up the
tab for trustees guests if they have a clear connection or future/potential
connection to MUSC.Such reimbursements are illegal, however, for other state
employees on business trips. By law, non-college board members are limited to a
$35 daily allowance plus $25 a day for meals and standard mileage. If they
require a hotel room, they must abide by rates set by the federal government.Two
prominent legislators told The Post and Courier they plan to investigate the
matter when the Legislature returns in January.
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