January 7, 2005
NSF Is Advised to Monitor Grant Recipients Better
The National Science Foundation should do a better job of monitoring its grant recipients to ensure that taxpayer dollars are being properly spent, according to two audits released last month.
One of those, an outside audit conducted by KPMG, urged the foundation to devote more of its staff and money to site visits of grantee institutions to evaluate whether they were making appropriate use of funds. Last year inspectors visited just 35 out of roughly 2,000 such institutions, about 130
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