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Administrators at City College of San Francisco, where cuts to academic programs remain controversial, have been spending significant sums on travel and other expenses without documentation about the purpose of such spending, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. For example, records obtained by the newspaper show that the college paid for travel by President Virginia Parras to China, Taiwan and Vietnam without required records about the purpose of the trip. College officials said the trip was to recruit foreign students but couldn't say whether any enrolled as a result. College officials also couldn't provide information on why they paid for spending by Parras at Best Buy ($1,759 and $1,377) and at Amazon Marketplace ($735).
Rafael Mandelman, president of the City College Board of Trustees, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the district started an investigation after the newspaper started looking into the issue. The expenses may "be perfectly explainable," he said, but the lack of appropriate documentation pointed to continuing problems that need fixing with regard to "internal fiscal controls."
