Word: parigian
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...federal grant money in fiscal 1975, 1976 and 1977, the Department of Health and Human Services concluded that Harvard did not keep adequate records of salary costs for specific federal programs, and that it routinely used money from one grant to cover cost overruns for another project. Says Edward Parigian, the HHS regional audit director: "These are violations of regulations and good business acumen. Universities shouldn't consider federal funds a giveaway. They should have good accountability...
...however, in order to receive some of the $2 billion in annual HHS grant money. Harvard Medical School, which received about half its $95 million budget for 1981-82 from the U.S., is not unusual in its dependence. Nor is it the only institution to be audited. Says Parigian: "All of your major schools that receive a substantial amount in federal grants-Yale, Harvard, the University of California complex, the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins-need to make significant improvements in recording and controlling federal funds." Meanwhile, Harvard intends to continue its fight with HHS on how much money...
...least one government official scoffs at charges that the government does not understand the nature of universities. All the government asks is that University officials "manage federal resources the same way they manage Harvard resources," says Edward A. Parigian, the regional inspector general for the Office of Audits...
...Parigian adds that the results of the Coopers and Lybrand audit merely confirm what is already known to the government through previous audits--that there is no fraud, but a "lack of much documentation" in Harvard's management of federal funds...