Audit Finds Employees at Fayetteville State University Misused $692,000 in Credit Cards
“alleges the associate vice chancellor and the director of digital strategy used travel cards to pay consultants nearly $72,000”
That’s a pretty hefty misuse of credit cards. Time to dock people’s pay?
WRAL News reports:
Audit: Fayetteville State University employees misused $692,000 in credit cards
Fayetteville State University employees are under investigation for unapproved purchases and misuse of university-issued credit cards.
According to an investigative audit from the North Carolina Office of the State Auditor (OSA), staff members in Fayetteville State University’s Office of Strategic Communication (OSC) used FSU-issued travel cards and purchasing cards for undocumented and unallowed credit card purchases totaling $692,239 between Jan. 1, 2022, and Aug. 31, 2023.
The misspent amount of $692,239 includes:
- $575,123 spent in purchasing cards, unallowable per university policy
- $84,469 spent in travel card purchases, unallowable per university policy
- $322,743 on P-card and T-card purchases without sufficient documentation
The total of $692,239 comes from the three items above, excluding $290,096 worth of purchases that were both unallowable per university policies and did not have sufficient documentation.
Additionally, more than $165,000 in university funds was paid to employee-owned businesses. The investigation revealed employees did not disclose the businesses in which they had a financial interest.
The associate vice chancellor for OSC, the director of digital strategy and the assistant vice chancellor for marketing and creative services for FSU spent more than $5,500 on Amazon.com, the investigation revealed.
The audit alleges the associate vice chancellor and the director of digital strategy used travel cards to pay consultants nearly $72,000. The investigation revealed the two spent more than $1,000 so they could arrive early and fly first class to a conference in New York City. They spent hundreds of dollars at a spa during the first day of the conference, the investigation suggests.
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how else to keep the athletes happy
What in the wide world of sports is a “director of digital strategy”? It sounds like one of those positions created to fill a diversity requirement for the EEOC.
The director of digital strategy oversees the staff of dedicated educators who draft the regulations governing which fingers may be used to pick one’s nose.
It was hard to find a definition of this term that wasn’t 100% weapons-grade bullshit, as Glassdoor’s was.(it boiled down to “improves stuff”).
https://www.digital-adoption.com/director-of-digital-strategy/
Even then, it’s not clear if the DDS decides what online media channels to leverage to best market his university to students and donors, or advises internal departments how best to use IT to achieve their own goals more efficiently, or both, or neither.
They buy cheap Chromebooks that never work for students.
Say you want your website, in this case FSU, to come in on the first page of Google when someone wants information on NC Universities with great Civil War Majors. Digital strategy is manipulating the search algorithms so FSU is always the 2cd or 3rd result. It is also making sure the webpage for the University looks right, all the links are correct, email lists are right etc. Stuff like that at least as I understand it.
Are we sure the “consultants” aren’t hookers or paid escorts? What kind of consultant gets paid with travel cards?
In the last couple of colleges where I worked only the CFO and main purchasing officer had college credit cards and before they placed an order for anyone they had to transfer funds commensurate with the purchase. Why a “director of digital strategy” had access to a card is beyond me.