Former Baltimore Mayor to Head Howard University Law School
Atlanta
Former Morris Brown College president Dr. Dolores Cross acknowledges that the school used $8 million in student financial aid to pay bills, but she says the U.S. Department of Education has overreacted in a review of financial practices at the college.
“When the money came in, we paid the vendors,” Cross told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last month. “When you have a college that is 82 percent tuition-driven, when money comes in, you pay bills. You take care of faculty.”
Federal investigators are exploring whether Morris Brown committed fraud by paying expenses rather than disbursing the funds to student accounts (see Black Issues, Oct. 24).
