Salon.com > columbia j school http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Columbia School of Journalism under fire for misdirected funds http://www.salon.com/2013/03/20/columbia_school_of_journalism_under_fire_for_misdirected_funds/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/20/columbia_school_of_journalism_under_fire_for_misdirected_funds/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:32:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13246963 Columbia University journalism professor Sylvia Nasar filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the university misdirected funds from a Knight Foundation endowment intended to subsidize her research and supplement other benefits. Instead, Columbia used the funds to pay Nasar's base salary, leaving her to support her research and other expenses out of pocket. The suit alleges Columbia misdirected $4.5 million in funds over a 10-year period.

The complaint filed by Nasar alleges that in addition to misdirecting endowment funds to pay her full salary, the university compensated her at a lower rate than other professors at Columbia. In fact, the document claims that her salary was cut after Nasar reduced her course load to accommodate the research that the endowment was intended to support.

She was also barred from hiring research assistants and forced to pay for all research-related travel, expenses that came to $174,000 over time, the claim alleges.

The journalism school's operating budget exceeds $30 million.

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