{"id":2408,"date":"2011-10-25T13:27:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2011-10-25T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T19:50:52","slug":"university-of-south-florida-can-not-audit-regional-campus-expenses-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/25\/university-of-south-florida-can-not-audit-regional-campus-expenses-president-says\/","title":{"rendered":"University of South Florida Cannot Audit Regional Campus Expenses, President Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alfonso Architects<\/p>

The plan for USF Polytechnic's Lakeland campus.<\/p><\/div>\n

University of South Florida president Judy Genshaft told two state Senators that any audit of USF Polytechnic is up to the regional campus chancellor.<\/p>\n

Republican state Sens. Paula Dockery and Mike Fasano asked Genshaft<\/a> to audit USF Polytechnic after learning the school hired regional chancellor Marshall Goodman’s son to run a business incubator program. The school also planned to spend $500,000 on a promotional video.<\/p>\n

USF Poly, in Lakeland, is pushing to become an independent university. A state board<\/a> could consider that request next month.<\/p>\n

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In her response to Dockery and Fasano, Genshaft said state law places the responsibility for USF Poly expenses with Goodman. Likewise, she wrote, Goodman would have to request an audit.<\/p>\n

USF Poly has has audits the past three years, Genshaft wrote, but those audits likely would not address Dockery and Fasano’s questions.<\/p>\n

“While the audits account for expenditures,” Genshaft wrote, “they do not comment on the prudence of each expenditure.”<\/p>\n

Below is Genshaft’s letter.<\/p>\n