Putting The Bee on gifts given to a public university

by E Wayne Ross on July 28, 2008

Courier-Journal: Putting The Bee on gifts given to a public university

Earlier this month, The Fresno Bee published what could be its last major piece about the matching gifts scandal at its local university.
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“Wrapping up a painful chapter in campus history,” reported George Hostetter, “Fresno State announced that it has been able to keep almost all of the $2.9 million in corporate matching gifts it received improperly over a 17-year period.”

The newspaper noted that Peter Smits, vice president for advancement at Fresno State, said the institution was able to contact most of the 207 companies making matching gifts from 1986 to 2003 that, according to a university-commissioned report, “were improperly accepted for athletics.”

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