Why Faculty Should Not Run Study Abroad

Rebecca Moorman says the first clue that something was amiss with her field trip to Chile came when her professor at The Evergreen State College insisted her payment of more than $3,000 be deposited into his bank account. A subsequent audit by the Olympia university, aided with information that Moorman gathered, revealed that she and 14 other students paid $70 a day for dormitory-style beds and food that should have cost just $14 a day. Some of the money went to a Chilean sanitation company, owned by relatives of the professor, that provided the accommodations, the audit said. The audit released earlier this year also found that the professor, Jorge Gilbert, can't account for at least $50,000 he collected from students and Evergreen for other Chilean trips since 2005, and that students first began raising concerns about his trips' finances in 1998. Read more at:
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