One instance of why college tuition keeps going up

Coastal Carolina University has some explaining to do its students--and the parents who pay tuition at the South Carolina college.

Could it be that at least at Coastal Carolina--and maybe other universities--tuition costs keep climbing because no one is minding the store?

From AP:

Coastal Carolina University is investigating whether a consultant paid more than $1 million since 1995 overbilled the school for policy and procedure manuals.

Many of the manuals include thousands of pages of generic government regulations and other documents downloaded from the Internet, The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News reported.

More...

One Coastal Carolina manual appears to be a near-verbatim copy of a Greenville Police Department manual, except that the university's name replaces Greenville's name, the newspaper reported.

And now the punchline: Coastal Carolina' president, Ronald Ingle, isn't sure what the accused exactly did for the university, telling a reporter:

There's mounds of stuff. As for the content of the work, that was several layers away from me.

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