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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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Investor's Club
The story shows that the University of California had invested $2 billion into private equity funds and companies with policy making Regents that held substantial conflicts of interest. The Regents include California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, his personal investment adviser, and the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
Tags: Regents; conflict of interest; University of California; investment; Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Investor's Club
The eight-month investigation found that the University of California invested $2 billion in private equity funds and companies in which several Regents held significant financial interests. The Regents include Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, his personal investment adviser, Paul Wachter, and Richard C. Blum, a Wall Street professional married to Senate Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
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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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Internet predators
This KCTV investigation probed the claims of the group Perverted Justice, which exposes men who use the Internet to prey on children. A member of Perverted Justice would pose as a minor in an Internet chat room and wait for an adult man to approach the "minor" about sex. The "minor" would then arrange to meet the man at a home rented by KCTV. After four days, 30 men made appointments to meet the "minor" for sex. Sixteen came to the door and were confronted by the news crew. The investigation showed how prevalent and serious the problem of Internet predators is.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Internet predators; sex crimes; cybercrime; sexual predators
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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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Giving away the hospital
SF Weekly details how the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University medical centers violated the public trust while merging their operations into one private nonprofit entity. The merger handed more than $380 million in public assets to a group of private individuals with no guaranteed return to the public purse.
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The College Station Eagle examines frequent use of Texas state planes by Texas A&M University regents and their families. According to reports, regents, their families and guests were often ferried to and from meetings and other functions with little debate about whether the trips were necessary for state business. (May 19 - June 16, 1996)
Tags: Coghlan University use of state planes examined Misuse of power Perks 7 pgs.