One year ago, the Ohio Department of Higher Education put Central State University on fiscal watch, citing multiple financial discrepancies. It marked the third time Ohio’s only public historically Black university was placed on a fiscal watch since 2005.
A financial accounting report from Ohio Auditor Keith Faber, the university’s recovery plan and an assessment from Gov. Mike DeWine all shine a light on severe deficiencies in fiscal oversight, academic operations and building maintenance.
Central State was founded in 1887 in Wilberforce.
Here is a look back at Central State’s most-recent fiscal watch:
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: How Central State University is working to get off fiscal watch
Reporting by Sheridan Hendrix and Laura A. Bischoff, Columbus Dispatch / The Columbus Dispatch
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