Inside Higher Ed: Battle of the Boards
n an unorthodox move, North Carolina’s State Board of Community Colleges has passed a resolution admonishing the Board of Trustees of Blue Ridge Community College for failing to oversee how the college’s president has operated its baseball program.
Specifically, the state board suggested that Blue Ridge trustees had not acted aggressively enough after a special review by the state auditor found myriad violations, including the baseball coach’s misuse of work-study payments, improper use of state funds and a possible conflict of interest in a financial deal that involved the college and a company owned by the board chairman.
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