A UNC-Greensboro vice chancellor inappropriately hired a technology contractor who was paid $431,925 in state money over two years, including $65,000 in expenses for commuting to Greensboro from Los Angeles and Las Vegas, according to a state audit released today.

The payments included $212,000 in student fee revenue to the contractor, whose billing rate was raised from $150 to $200 an hour during the period, Jane Stancill reports. The contract was executed by the vice chancellor for information technology services without following university procedures, the audit said.

The job, which was to ensure that a new administrative computing system was implemented on time, was not posted nor competitively bid. The university's top legal and business officials did not review the contract in violation of university procedure.

The vice chancellor who approved the contract was not named in the audit, nor was the independent contractor.

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