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Post by Gator on Feb 6, 2007 21:21:16 GMT -5
I personally don't have a problem with an audit. It's just the rhetoric that's going along with it. In my opinion, Renick came in with a check to contribute. What check did Hackley bring in?
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Post by Aggie One on Feb 6, 2007 21:55:16 GMT -5
An out of control ego and a Messiah complex.
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Post by DECKS on Feb 7, 2007 19:23:37 GMT -5
An out of control ego and a Messiah complex. I agree. I personally don't like nor understand all of this public finger pointing and grandstanding! I think I'll just send my comments to the BOT.
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Post by AggieGroove on Feb 8, 2007 8:44:32 GMT -5
More on the story in the N&R today...even implications at the athletics office.
A&T audit digs deep in offices
GREENSBORO — Auditors at N.C. A&T are investigating allegations of grant mismanagement in the College of Engineering and possible fraud in the School of Agriculture as part of ongoing probes on campus, interim Chancellor Lloyd V. Hackley said Wednesday.
The investigations, which Hackley requested in late December, are looking into deficiencies in internal controls, financial irregularities and other issues at the public university.
Top officials from UNC General Administration, as well as former state auditors, investigated those concerns for almost two months. Hackley said he hopes to receive a preliminary report "in the next couple of days."
Other areas on campus also are under scrutiny.
Within the Department of Human Resources, a consultant is looking into assertions that some employees are getting paid more than their job classifications stipulate, Hackley said.
"Sometimes organizations, in the need of the moment, will move a person from one classification to another and forget or neglect to go back and do the paperwork," he said. But Hackley warned that such oversights can become serious problems if they aren't corrected.
After not being able to get clear answers about scholarship data — such as the criteria for certain awards, the amount of scholarship money distributed, the number of scholarships available and how award students are performing — the interim chancellor asked for an inquiry into the university's entire scholarship program.
"There needed to be one office on campus that knew every scholarship dollar being handed out on this campus," Hackley said. "Until we gather all that data into one place, I don't have a clue as to the number of dollars being used, the criteria. But I will know."
Additional areas being investigated include allegations of improper payments in A&T's Department of Housing and Residence Life and a comprehensive review of the athletics department.
The internal investigations began about the time Rodney Harrigan, a former vice chancellor, was arrested and charged with embezzlement.
Hackley reiterated Wednesday that he hasn't been presented with any additional claims of criminal wrongdoing by auditors.
"So far, we are having more issues of control problems and documentation problems than we have malfeasance," he said.
Some identified problems have been handled, Hackley said. A&T's former chief of police, Curtis Bigelow, left the school in December, about the time a state law enforcement commission found reason to suspend his certification for at least five years for not reporting misdemeanor charges against him.
A&T's former Chancellor James Renick defended his almost seven-year tenure at the university Tuesday, saying in a statement that the university's annual audits found no serious financial irregularities.
Hackley said forensic audits, like the type under way, dig deeper than ordinary audits.
Forensic audits are used "where there's some inkling of impropriety or concern about mismanagement," Hackley said. "A lot of times you can get a regular audit to pass but a forensic audit will fail."
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Post by aggiejazz on Feb 8, 2007 9:19:44 GMT -5
Hackley is talking to the N&R as if he is talking to the Aggie Alumni. The difference is we care and N&R is about selling newspaper and publicly showing A&T's deficiencies while refusing to do the same with UNC-G.
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 8, 2007 10:17:57 GMT -5
Well folks, the stuff that's being uncovered is why the state felt it necessary to bring Hackley in in the first place.
It's unfortunate that it has to play out in the N&R. It's more unfortunate that the N&R feels it has to do a hatchet job on Renick. I wonder whose wife at the N&R he slept with to have them sniffing his drawers this long after he's gone.
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Post by Bigboy on Feb 8, 2007 10:32:19 GMT -5
It seems as if the present administration has been throwing Renick "under the bus" since Hacklely came here. I truly beleive that it is by design to discredit Renick because he and Bowles did not like each other (so I heard), or they must have "T.O." working in this administration!!!
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Post by Gator on Feb 8, 2007 10:40:04 GMT -5
It doesn't seem they've found anything major. If I were Renick, I wouldn't worry to much because when you do to much talking things have a tendency to fall back on the talker. In my opinion, based on what I've read so far, there is not much credibility nor validity in the stories.
Looks to me you have an ambitious investigative reporter with an ambitious school administrator.
Screw them both!
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Post by Maxell on Feb 8, 2007 12:07:49 GMT -5
I'll be glad when Hackley's azz is gone. He could get the same things done without going to the N&R.
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Post by A&T AGGIE 96 on Feb 8, 2007 12:37:32 GMT -5
I'll be glad when Hackley's azz is gone. He could get the same things done without going to the N&R. This is what ticks me off the most about this whole thing. The Chit they are finding at A&T you can find at any UNC school. The NR keeps stories in the paper, but they haven't found a damn thing. Hopfully in the end this will make us even stronger. One thing is for sure we don't have any friends at the NR. You'd think they would have more to talk about than audits that haven't found any wrong doing at A&T.
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 8, 2007 12:53:39 GMT -5
I just don't understand the extreme difficulty the school seems to have. We should be ensuring that the local paper is gung ho about reporting positive events and putting a positive spin on negatives at the school. Instead leadership is feeding them gossip about an inability to count to 500 without taking 50 for yourself.
The thing I do like is it sounds like Hackley will clean things up and organize them in a manner that will fall in line with what the University System expects. Perhaps Renick had them organized according to what would actually work given the budgetary constraints we have. Unfortunately what works and what is allowed ain't always the same thing. It seems as simple as calling a bird a chicken when all birds ain't chickens. It also seems about as newsworthy.
I can't wait until somebody in the College of Arts & Sciences farts during a presentation. That'll be front page.
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Post by truthseeker on Feb 8, 2007 17:11:47 GMT -5
Re: A&T calls in auditors over finances « Reply #24 on Today at 12:37pm »
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Today at 12:07pm, Maxell wrote:I'll be glad when Hackley's azz is gone. He could get the same things done without going to the N&R. A&T Aggie 96 QUOTE
"This is what ticks me off the most about this whole thing. The Chit they are finding at A&T you can find at any UNC school. The NR keeps stories in the paper, but they haven't found a damn thing.
Hopfully in the end this will make us even stronger. One thing is for sure we don't have any friends at the NR.
You'd think they would have more to talk about than audits that haven't found any wrong doing at A&T". Link to Post - Back to Top Logged A&T might not have any friends at the NR..... But Hackley sure does!!!!
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Post by captaggie on Feb 15, 2007 12:57:44 GMT -5
This came out of the Durham paper - HeraldSun.com Meetings INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS, N.C. TRIANGLE CHAPTER, North Raleigh Hilton, 3415 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh. Kathy Santos-Rezendes, 541-6162 or www.imanctriangle.org. Ethics for Accountants. Lloyd Hackley of N.C. A&T University, guest speaker. 6 p.m. $30, members; $35, nonmembers. I wonder what the subject of his talk will be?
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Post by B&GMM 80 on Feb 15, 2007 14:43:30 GMT -5
Maybe HACKNEY is trying to become the next Chancellor at NCCU since Ammons is returning Home, and what better way to become the next Chancellor by taking THE PREMIER STATE HBCU DOWN in the process
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Post by aggielaw on Feb 15, 2007 15:59:36 GMT -5
The same type of audit concerns we have at A&T are the same ones he had at FSU. The reality is that all colleges have the same type of loose accounting/financial problems. You can find a "negative story" whenever you decide to look at the books.
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