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Ritchie: fund misuse unintended UNO: charge it
By Todd Hegert
Each year millions of federal dollars are funneled into
universities across the nation to aid students and resear
chers. Some people are wondering how well the money is
being used.
Among them is the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare. HEW auditors have found misuse of federal
funds in two midwest universities, the University of
Oklahoma and the University of Iowa, according the The
Omaha World -Herald.
Jack Ritchie, director of the Office of Scholarships
and Financial Aids at UNL said that misuse of financial
aid dollars is a problem in many universities, but that
little of it is intentional.
Understaffed financial aids offices and lack of know
ledge are sources of most mishandled money problems,
Ritchie said.
"Most people outside financial aids offices are not
,aware of the number and complexity of financial aid
ipiogiams offered through Social Security, the G.I. Bill,
the federal government or the educational institution
itself," Ritchie said.
Ritchie said the Office of Scholarships and Financial
Aids at UNL, has a staff of six full-time advisers and
seven secretaries to monitor an annual $14 million in
financial aid.
He said he has requested a larger staff because the cur
rent staff is too small to properly administer this much
money to students receiving financial aid at UNL.
The UNL Office of Scholarships and Financial Aids has
not been checked directly by HEW, he said, but it is
audited each year by the UNL business office.
At lekst once every five years the audit must be sub
mitted to HEW, he said.
Any federal funds that HEW determines have been mis
used must be repayed by the university, Ritchie said.
"What it boils down to is that it would be better to pay
salaries to a larger staff than to have to repay money
mishandled due to understaffing," Ritchie said.? f
The University of Nebraska at Omaha has sent appli
cations for two major credit cards to returning students to
encourage them to use credit cards to pay tuition and
fees.
Gary Carrico, vice chancellor at UNO, said the applica
tions were mailed to point out to students that credit
cards can be used to pay tuition and fees at UNO, just as
they can be used at other colleges and universities.
"The university wanted to make students aware of all
the possibilities," he said.
"It minimizes collection expenses," he said. With credit
cards there are fewer students who don't pay their bills,
and therefore, fewer students to follow up on by the ad
ministration, he explained.
Credit cards also can be helpful to students who don't
have all the cash at once, Carrico said.
Carrico said that the amount charged by the credit
card companies for students would be the same as what is
charged for anyone else.
; The idea to inform students on the credit ' card possi:
bilities was developed by the UNO staff, Carrico said.
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