Dive Brief:

• A California State University audit has turned up more than $150,000 in questionable spending at San Jose State University, including massages, concert tickets, an iPhone, parking tickets, and camera equipment paid for from an illicit off-campus bank account.
• The auditors criticized campus leaders for finding, after a whistleblower complaint, no wrongdoing by the former chairman of the university’s justice studies department when he made “inadvertent charges” for himself from the account, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
• San Jose State President Mo Qayoumi, who requested the audit, said he was disappointed by “so many troubling breaches of trust, policy and protocol," and that the campus intends to follow all 18 recommendations from the audit by year end.

Dive Insight:

The former justice studies chair, Mark Correia, is now dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The newspaper reported he did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment. In all, about $13,000 in questionable expenses were paid for from the off-campus account, and according to the university’s own report, $7,000 was reimbursed by Correia. The department also spent more than $67,000 from the university’s continuing education fund that didn’t appear to have anything to do with continuing education, the auditors reported.