Individual students must obtain a fiscal sponsor to administer awarded funds, such as a registered student group, ASUC, Graduate Assembly, academic department, or other functional unit.
But even the Justice Department, which administers awards through the False Claims Act, generally pays out 16.8 percent of what it takes in, and the average penalty is $2 million to $3 million.
The report, by the department's Office of Inspector General, concluded that the managers "were not fiscally responsible in administering awards" and that one senior manager in particular, Jennifer S. Duncan, "acted as if she was given a blank checkbook to write unlimited monetary awards".
Overview: Records of Radcliffe College's Office of Women's Education, which served as an advisory and advocacy body for women students and administered awards and fellowships, internship and extra-curricular programs.
Overview: Records of Radcliffe College's Radcliffe Forum, an advisory and advocacy body for women students, alumnae, and women in the community which administered awards and fellowships, internship and extra-curricular programs.
Dance/NYC, an arts service and advocacy organization, will administer the awards, which signifies an important shift.
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard administer the award, which was established in 1998 to honor Mr. Lukas, an award-winning author and journalist.
The Office of Graduate Education administers these awards through an annual competition.
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University co-administer the awards.
The Online News Association, an organization of journalists, administers the awards along with the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
It draws up the rules and regulations for administering the awards.
