Home News Report: Queer Student Cultural Center missing funds

Report: Queer Student Cultural Center missing funds

0
Report: Queer Student Cultural Center missing funds
Source: Essygie

Source: Essygie

The Minnesota Daily reports that the Queer Student Cultural Center at the University of Minnesota is investigating financial mismanagement involving potentially thousands of dollars.

The group receives approximately $50,000 in student service fees each year.

An evaluation by Deloitte and Touche LLP found “potentially personal use of group funds,” according to the Daily, due to embezzled money by a former treasurer.

The Daily reports that QSCC members have taken action to correct the situation including bringing in a new treasurer.
Despite the problems, the student-led fees committee awarded the QSCC $49,011 for the upcoming school year.

The QSCC is a student run group for LGBT, queer, and allied students at the University of Minnesota. It’s one of the oldest student-run LGBT groups in the country tracing its roots to the pre-Stonewall era.

Disclosure: Andy Birkey was a co-chair of the QSCC in 2003-04.

Previous article Muffin Top Cafe opens in Loring Park
Next article “Ex-gay” therapy ban for minors fails at MN Capitol, activists promise reprise in 2015
Andy Birkey has written for a number of Minnesota and national publications. He founded Eleventh Avenue South which ran from 2002-2011, wrote for the Minnesota Independent from 2006-2011, the American Independent from 2010-2013. His writing has appeared in The Advocate, The Star Tribune, The Huffington Post, Salon, Cagle News Service, Twin Cities Daily Planet, TheUptake, Vita.mn and much more. His writing on LGBT issues, the religious right and social justice has won awards including Best Beat Reporting by the Online News Association, Best Series by the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and an honorable mention by the Sex-Positive Journalism awards.