{"id":4341,"date":"2008-08-04T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/08\/kentucky-records-show-felner-spent-big-bucks-during-cut-backs-apparently-with-u-of-ls-approval\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:44:34","slug":"kentucky-records-show-felner-spent-big-bucks-during-cut-backs-apparently-with-u-of-ls-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/08\/kentucky-records-show-felner-spent-big-bucks-during-cut-backs-apparently-with-u-of-ls-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky: Records show Felner spent big bucks during cut-backs apparently with U of L’s approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAS11.com: Records show Felner spent big bucks during cut-backs apparently with U of L’s approval<\/a><\/p>\n

Video report: http:\/\/www.whas11.com\/video\/index.html?nvid=269706&shu=1<\/a><\/p>\n

Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) – The investigation surrounding former University of Louisville Dean Robert Felner continues.<\/p>\n

During a time of budget cut-backs at the University of Louisville, it appears Robert Felner was spending big bucks, all apparently with university approval.<\/p>\n

When students head back to the University of Louisville in the fall, most will face a nine percent tuition increase to make up for a budget shortfall.<\/p>\n

The budget crisis was so great this year that salary increases for faculty members were capped 700 dollars and most work-related travel was cutback.<\/p>\n

But WHAS11 News found out that apparently wasn\u2019t the case for Dr. Robert Felner and more than two dozen members of the College of Education and Human Development.<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of this year, the state of higher education in Kentucky has been dire.<\/p>\n

University of Louisville President James Ramsey testified before the legislature of the doom and gloom. They even considered casino gambling as a way to stop the red ink.<\/p>\n

But less than two months later, Dean Robert Felner took 27 members of the College of Education and Human Development to the American Educational Research Association in New York.<\/p>\n

WHAS11 News went through nearly 300 pages of expense reports to determine that Felner\u2019s college spent more than $3,400 dollars on travel, lodging and meals.<\/p>\n

Felner even hosted a reception at the conference that came with crab cakes, shrimp and plenty of drinks at a cost to the university of $8,508 dollars.<\/p>\n

WHAS11 News also looked at Felner\u2019s other spending during the last six months of his employment at the University of Louisville.<\/p>\n

Felner liked to dine at some of Louisville\u2019s finest restaurants on the university\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n

At Proof on Main, he ran up a $300 dollar bill, at Jack Fry\u2019s, two dinners added up to $675.00.<\/p>\n

Felner charged gifts, flowers, magazine subscriptions and professional dues on university credit cards during his final months as dean.<\/p>\n

During Felner\u2019s last month in June, he had some quite unusual charges, including hundreds of dollars to a company called U boxes, which sells moving boxes. He also had $759 dollars in charges to amazon.com.<\/p>\n

The bills don\u2019t indicate what Felner bought with U of L credit cards but the total charges add up to $31,335 dollars.<\/p>\n

A university spokesperson says that attendance at the annual American Educational Research Association conference is critical for faculty members at a major research university.<\/p>\n

She says the number of attendees reflects a significant accomplishment for U of L.<\/p>\n

The university can\u2019t comment on Felner\u2019s credit card charges, since that may be part of the federal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHAS11.com: Records show Felner spent big bucks during cut-backs apparently with U of L’s approval Video report: http:\/\/www.whas11.com\/video\/index.html?nvid=269706&shu=1 Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) – The investigation surrounding former University of Louisville Dean Robert Felner continues. During a time of budget cut-backs at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,2264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","category-legal-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}