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A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University Vol. 25, Issue 42 fiusm.com Monday, November 25, 2013 Audit reveals distance learning fee revenue spent outside of statute MADISON FANTOZZI learning fee decreased nearly 13 determined by Florida Distance Fall 2013 distance News Director percent from the $199 charge in Learning Task Force: instruc- 2011 to $160 this semester for tion costs, costs covered by other learning fee per credit Students are petitioning for its a three-credit course after the fees and costs associated with hour elimination and President Mark department agreed to comply and the development and delivery B. Rosenberg is unsure of how put in place better controls over of eligible distance learning UWF 15 it can be reduced, but the Office its spending. courses. of Internal Audit may have found However, Dean of Univer- “The spending wasn’t inap- UCF 18 a way to lower FIU Online’s sity College Joyce Elam said the propriate, it was a matter of distance learning fee. audit’s criticisms were matters of narrow interpretation,” Elam UNF 35 Auditors reported in the first “grey areas.” said. “It’s what tuition should audit of FIU Online in April that According to Florida statute, pay for instead of the distance FAU 37 “significant” and “considerable” “the amount of the distance learning fee, like advisers.” USF 50 amounts of distance learning learning course fee may not However, auditors marked fee expenditures in fiscal year exceed additional costs of the FIU Online’s policy and proce- FIU 53.33 2011-2012 violated state statute, services provided which are dures compliance as inadequate. concluding that the distance attributable to the development Over $1.6 million paid to FSU 70 learning fee could be reduced and delivery of the distance College of Arts and Sciences with compliance to policy. learning course.” 0 20 40 60 80 This proved true. The distance What cannot be charged, SEE FINANCES, PAGE 2 Amount in U.S. Dollars Karaoke night to destress Rosenberg receives five-year extension Panthers after classes BRANDON WISE extension, as well as an annual ARLYNE PEREZ Zoraya Hernandez,coordinator of student services Editor-in-Chief retirement supplement of Contributing Writer at the College of Law. “We get together, all the $80,000 beginning in December students, faculty and administrators and they have Univer- 2014 through December 2018. As Florida International University College of fun singing along the whole night.” sity President If still continuously employed Law has decided it is time to put down the books Michelle Mason, senior associate dean of the Mark B. Rosen- as president – including the last and grab a microphone, students will have a chance college, started the annual karaoke night nine berg was given day of his term of Aug. 3, 2019 to celebrate all their hard work from the semester years ago to celebrate the last day of classes for all a five-year – Rosenberg will also receive a and take a breather before finals at karaoke night. students. contract exten- retention bonus of $100,000. Held at the College of Law student lounge The event is sponsored by the Student Services sion through Maury believes Rosenberg’s between the Admissions and Financial Aid Office Department that takes care of all the student organi- MARK B. ROSENBERG August 2019 on leadership is key to the Univer- and Student Services. On Nov. 26, Panthers will be zations at the College of Law. Thursday, Nov. sity’s future success, noting last encouraged to sing and dance along to music from “I think the event will be a great place to unwind 21, by the Board of Trustees. week’s recognition of FIU’s Disc Jockey MP3 Entertainment. and have fun,” said Kayla Chaviano, freshmen busi- In a University-wide email, Graduation Success Initiative “We do it to celebrate the last day of the full ness management major. Board of Trustees Chairman by the Association of Public and semester. [Associate Dean Michelle Mason] thought Albert Maury commended Land-Grant Universities. SEE ACTIVITIES, PAGE 2 it would be a fun way to end the first semester,” said Rosenberg: “This award was for FIU’s “In his first four years, he has high-tech, high touch efforts in assembled an incredible team to increasing our graduation rate MELLOW MUSIC carry out our vision for FIU as by nine percentage points in a leading student-centered urban the course of two years,” wrote public research university that Maury. has become a solutions center Maury also noted the Univer- locally and globally,” wrote sity’s record of graduating more Maury. than 12,000 students each year, Rosenberg received a base including more Hispanics than salary of $496,613last year, any other university, as well as according to floridahasarightto- the its leading role in Science, know.com, Technology, Engineering and However, Media Relations Mathematics education – partic- confirmed this number was at the ularly that of Hispanics and start of Rosenberg’s 2009-2013 minorities. contract, which across-the-board “FIU, under President Rosen- increases rose to $502,578.62. berg’s leadership, is committed The value of his renewed to giving our students the tools contract was not confirmed by they need to succeed in and press time, but his salary will outside the classroom,” wrote remain approximately $502,578. Maury. Rosenberg will not be eligible for across-the-board increases [email protected] received by other University employees with his new contract. Any salary increases will need OSCAR LIN/THE BEACON to be granted by the Board of Members of the band The Madison Letter Clayton Jones (right) and Mitch Schrock (left) performed Trustees. during a Student Programming Council carnival this past Wednesday. He will also be granted a $50,000 signing bonus for the 2 The Beacon – Monday, November 25, 2013 NEWS fiusm.com WORLD NEWS Auditors conclude distance North Korea detains US war veteran, 85, son says learning fee can be lowered North Korean officials detained an 85-year-old employees, over $336,000 paid to to Biscayne Bay Campus two days U.S. veteran of the Korean War last month as he College of Business Administration a week,” she said, calculating that sat in a plane set to leave the country, the man’s and over $100,000 paid to School at $5 a day, two days a week for 16 son said. A uniformed North Korean officer of Journalism and Mass Communi- weeks she would pay $160 in travel boarded the plane on Oct. 26 and asked Merrill cation administrative and support I’m 100 percent expenses. Newman, a tourist, for his passport before telling staff for salaries and fringe benefits certain the distance Elam said no fee would mean no a stewardess that Newman had to leave the plane, without any justification for paying online courses, however. Still, the the son, Jeffrey Newman, said Wednesday. “My these expenditures from the distance fee will not increase. University’s distance learning fee dad got off, walked out with the stewardess, and learning fee. remains one of the highest in the that’s the last he was seen,” Jeffrey Newman told The audit also disclosed that Joyce Elam state. The Associated Press at his home in California. It 96 percent of distance learning fee Dean “As the number of students wasn’t clear what led to the detention. dollars tested within the College of University College enrolled in online class grow, the German “Lost Art” register Arts and Sciences had little or no economy will help scale the fee,” she direct benefit to its online programs, program costs. said. posts further pictures and 67 percent of dollars tested “We will ensure the distance Rosenberg shared the same within FIU Online had no direct learning fee is only spent on things outlook in an interview with Student German authorities released more pictures benefit to distance learning or other authorized by statute,” Elam said. Media in early October. and details Thursday of the massive trove of online programs. “But in today’s world with budget “I do see a flattening of the fee art that was discovered in a Munich apart- The auditors’ conclusion: opportu- cuts, it’s difficult to identify where structure, but I can’t predict how and ment last year. Prosecutors gave the official nities to reduce the distance learning funds will come from and we need I don’t see any in the short term,” “Lost Art” website permission to put a further 54 entries online, taking the total to 79. The fee exists if FIU Online spends its the fee in order to offer students the Rosenberg said. new items include works by Norwegian artist revenue in compliance with statute convenience of online courses.” While Elam says eliminating the Edvard Munch, French painter Henri de and policy. But some students want to see fee is not an option, she can promise Toulouse-Lautrec and German impressionist FIU Online establishes its distance the fee eliminated – over 200 have students one thing.