VIEWPOINT: N.D. student fee audit’s timing suspicious
August 5, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Grand Forks Herald
The timing of the student fees audit reeks of political opportunism. It seems like it is open season in some political circles on higher education in North Dakota, constantly attacking our colleges and universities at a time when they are doing a tremendous job of educating our students and preparing them for careers. Continue Reading
I don’t agree with your pretense of using this letter to the editor as a free way to get your name out for the auditors position.
That being said I do agree with your premise that this audit, the narrow focus are more of a reason for an ‘unnamed’ Speaker of the House to nitpick his way into controlling the North Dakota University System.
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I was so glad to see that this piece wasn’t written by a CPA but by a politician running for office. I could be wrong, but I thought that’s when the annual audit came out every year. I read quite a bit of the findings of the audit and it didn’t seem political at all. It was standard language used by all auditors. Every audit has statements that look upsetting to the untrained eye. It was the reporter who chose which findings to highlight in the paper, not the state auditor. Who votes for an architect to be state auditor? Key words, folks, “untrained eye.”
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