I was promised a full two year need based scholarship at this college. During my second semester I was notified that they were unable to let me study for any more semesters.
Since I was unable to get a loan, I was forced to drop out and now I work minimum wage.
Later, I saw on the news that the company president had used 95 million dollars of college money to buy shit like alchohol , hunting trips, and bribes. It was for this reason I was unable to continue my education. I seriously considered murdering this man after I found this out.
I know this is not so relevant, but it makes me so angry and sad! This man took money from people who needed it, from a public college.
The worst part is, he got off 100% SCOT FREE WITH A 750,000 SEVERANCE PACKAGE TOO! FUCK. I CANT EVEN TYPE THIS WITHOUT GETTING ANGRY. TWO MONTHS AGO I GOT FIRED AND FINED HEAVILY FOR STEALING LIKE 10 AVACADOS BECAUSE I WANTED TO MAKE GUAC AND WAS OUT OF MONEY AND THIS ASSHOLE STEALS 95 MILLION AND RUINS LIVES, AND HE GETS 750 K!??!
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The College of DuPage runs a special fund for administrators called an "imprest fund." At COD, any purchase made from the fund that is under the $15,000 is not subject to disclosure to the public or review by the Board of Trustees.[64] The Board of Trustees reportedly has failed to review the itemized receipts for $26 million of expenditures that college administrators have spent over 16 months.[65] Writer Adam Andrzejewski filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in order to obtain details about the unexplained spending; writing in Forbes magazine, he stated that "[a]t COD, imprest payments aren’t individually disclosed, but instead aggregated and summarized as a line item."[66] Hence, the fund has been viewed to as an accounting maneuver that allows people to lump multiple purchases together into a single budgetary line item, allowing individual purchases without explanation.[67] These reports call attention to the fact that COD administrators made 85,000 individual purchases under $15,000 limit from the imprest fund, from the imp rest fund, totaling $95 million.[citation needed] This spending included:[67]
$243,305 for alcohol, under an account ledger description of "instructional supplies";
$23,686 to President Breuder's private shooting club, and for supplies for an elephant-hunting trip the President took to Africa; and
$4,809 in mileage reimbursement for local travel, in addition to the monthly car allowance that the president receives.
In addition, a number of payments from the imprest fund to businesses associated with individuals with positions with the COD Foundation have been referred to as "conflict of Interest payments";[65] these include:
$435,365 to Herricane Graphics, where owner Carla Burkhart sits on the COD Foundation board of directors;
$328,020 to Wight & Company, a construction company, whose owner Mark Wight is a vice president of the COD Foundation;
$464,873 to Robbins Schwartz Nicholas Lifton & Taylor, a law firm, where an attorney at the firm, Kenneth Florey, sits on COD Foundation board; and
$229,500 to Roger Marquardt & Co., a lobbying firm, where company president Scott Marquardt sits on COD Foundation board.
Concerns about the fund and its accounting irregularities have been voiced by citizens attending recent board meetings;[citation needed] in November, 2104, the COD Board of Trustees, however, voted "no" on a motion to audit the imprest funds.[64] The vice chair of the board, Kathy Hamilton, proposed that all payments made from the imprest fund be submitted to the board each month. Trustee Diane McGuire criticized the FOIA requests from watchdog groups, calling them "counterproductive", and characterized the cost of the effort the school has to make to respond to the requests as "dollars that are actually wasted."[64] In October 2014, The Washington Times awarded its weekly “Golden Hammer Award,” given for waste, fraud, and abuse in government, to the College of DuPage, in largest part in response to its management of this fund.[67]
