An internal audit of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) has found no issues with the handling of CAR’s finances, according to the school.
The audit comes after CAR founding director Dr. Ibram X. Kendi announced the laying off of 19 people, in doing so prompting outside questions about the center’s grant management and why it had not completed more research with its funding.
The audit. which covered the center’s founding in June 2020 through September 2023, is part of BU’s larger look into CAR, hiring an outside firm to inquire into its workplace culture and climate under Kendi. It found that CAR’s expenditures were appropriately charged to respective grant and gift accounts.
Other findings from the examination are still to come. The school is now looking into CAR’s grants for adherence to proper reporting processes.
After the restructuring, the center will have a staff about half its original size and will have nine-month resident fellows conducting individual projects instead of staff and faculty, according to BU.
“As I have said from the beginning, the restructuring did not come from financial distress brought on by …
