FAYETTEVILLE — An internal audit made public Friday states that University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College found that a staff member improperly provided bid information to a vendor.
The college’s police department was involved with an investigation but “that part of the investigation concluded” with no further action taken by police, Chancellor Margaret Ellibee said.
The audit document states that the employee resigned in December and that the employee’s supervisor, the dean of the college’s School of Fine Arts and Humanities, resigned in January. Auditors also found some items purchased over market cost or not in use.
An inventory check completed as part of the same audit found that 50 items with a total value of $27,489 were unable to be located, the report states. The items missing from the college’s School of Fine Arts and Humanities included 12 laptop and desktop computers.
University of Arkansas System auditors in a separate report, also made public Friday, described claims that an administrative analyst in UA-Fayetteville’s UAteach program improperly used purchase cards assigned to her for $14,994.78 in “unauthorized, non-University…
