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...latest draft audit report, HEW charges the SPH with mismanagement of almost half of the $37.1 million the school received in the three-year period under investigation. Throughout the text of the document, HEW officials charge Harvard with sloppy and insufficient record-keeping and faulty supervision of expenditures...
...Huntington Avenue, over at the School of Public Health (SPH), they've been learning the hard way. A couple of years ago, 10 men from the regional HEW office descended on the budget office--and didn't leave for 18 months. When they finally packed up their calculators and balance sheets, and issued the first part of their draft report, nobody offered to throw any going-away parties. In a document released last April, HEW charged the school with questionable expenditure of $2.5 million and challenged the school's techniques for recording more than $15 million in salaries and wages...
...wasn't the first time, of course, that the SPH has faced charges of misappropriation of funds. Way back in 1975, when one-time SPH faculty member Dr. Phin Cohen charged Harvard officials with actively misusing federal research funds--and then told the NIH about it--the battle began. Then in May 1976, an NIH audit concluded that the school's department of Nutrition had overcharged the federal government by $132,000 and the agency told Harvard to give it back. The University concurred with the findings and returned the money in September 1976--in an effort...
...late. Cohen, who had lost his job as well as a portion of his federal grant, was not about to give up. He filed a lawsuit against the University and two SPH officials, demanding his reinstatement as an assistant professor of Nutrition and pointing the finger at Harvard's unbalanced books. When a Congressional subcommittee heard what Cohen had to say, Harvard was brought face to face with HEW. And HEW launched a massive investigatory audit of some $225 million in federal research grants given to various University faculties from 1974-77. So much for the buddy system...
...first portion questions the use of some $2.5 million the SPH used to purchase equipment and maintain facilities. The second portion, as Scott explains, questions about $15 million distributed under the University's "salary certification system." "The payroll distribution system and related internal controls are not in compliance with federal regulations," the 60-page document charges. "The system that was used and currently in use does not provide reasonable assurance that direct costs for the personal services of professorial and other professional staff were either proper or reasonable...