Courier-Journal: Felner never filed financial disclosure forms
Former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner, who is under investigation for possibly misusing federal research money, never filed financial-disclosure forms required by the university to show possible conflicts of interest.
The university, responding to an open-records request by The Courier-Journal, could find no financial-disclosure records filed by Felner during his five years at U of L. The review was conducted by the research integrity program, part of the university’s Office of Research, according to William Morison, the university’s archivist who handles open-records requests.
Felner has overseen a $694,000 federal education grant that is now being investigated. Much of the grant — $450,000 — went to a former colleague and friend, Thomas Schroeder, who was president of an education-research center in Illinois that he said he created at Felner’s request in 2001.
If Felner had filled out the disclosure forms, he would have had to include his financial relationship with the Illinois center, and the fact that Felner was a paid director of a research center at the University of Rhode Island, which received some of the grant money.
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