A state audit of Southern Connecticut State University found that the school continued to lack some required documentation in 2010 and 2011 on employee work and purchasing, and failed to collect certain payments on time.
Among the findings:
· The school’s food vendor paid a $428,534 net sales commission more than eight months late.
· The school spent less than half of a required $155,325 from a state student aid program on community service employment for students and lacked documentation proving some of the students had worked in those roles. The requirement has since been eliminated.
· Required reports showing employees had fulfilled work requirements for federally-funded programs were inadequate
· Some employee-tuition reimbursement forms had no supporting documentations
· Three contracts with outside parties totaling $64,335 were not signed by all required parties before taking effect
· Six purchases by student trustee organizations totaling nearly $5,000 lacked documentation proving they were approved expenditures
Auditors repeated 13 of 22 recommendations from a previous 2009-2010 audit of the New Haven School, including improvement of internal financial controls, pursuit of overpayments to former employees of vacation and sick pay balances, and improvements collection and controls on past-due student accounts.
SCSU said in the audit that it has already made many of the recommended changes.
