A long day in store for administrators at Florida State College at Jacksonville, but out of it may finally come a roadmap for the future.
After receiving an independent review last week, the FSCJ Board of Trustees spent the weekend looking in to the 16 recommendations outlined in the report. They will spend nearly four hours today discussing what to make of those recommendations and what to begin acting on. During last week’s special meeting, the Board decided their normal two hour workshop may not be enough time to complete their full discussion- so they doubled that time in order to hammer out all the details.
And that is only the start of the day.
During the regular Board meeting beginning at 2 PM, College President Steven Wallace has a lengthy plan to discuss. He says the executive office has been working with the financial aid audit handed down a few weeks ago to put together a plan of its own.
Wallace told WOKV two weeks ago that there will be “administrative consequences” for the financial aid mismanagement which left the college with millions of dollars in grants to pay back and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. FSCJ will try to recover the cost of the grants from the students, but the fines are a penalty from the Department of Education.
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