Pittsburgh’s Point Park University has agreed to pay $1.4-million to settle a lawsuit over accusations that it misused student aid, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. In the lawsuit, filed in 2010 by a former employee and joined by the U.S. government, Point Park was accused of not providing aid to financially needy part-time and residential students. Betty L. Davis, a former senior director of financial aid at the university, will receive $420,000 in the settlement, with most of the rest of the money going to the federal government. According to the newspaper, the university also settled with Ms. Davis, for an undisclosed sum, over her assertion that Point Park had fired her for blowing the whistle on the misuse of student aid.
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