My recent experience running for a seat on the MUSC Board of Trustees provided me an unabashed view behind the curtain of our State’s legislature. The South Carolina General Assembly is responsible for electing the members of the State’s university boards, and after going through the process as a candidate, it became clear that internal [...]
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TIPS, QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FROM FITS READERS
Welcome to “the wire,” our pseudo-regular effort to engage the growing number of tips, comments and questions we receive here at FITS News. While we continue perfecting this new format – and our forthcoming website overhaul – please keep your tips, comments and questions coming!
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Another Alleged MUSC Scam Under Investigation
The problem with the public sector doing something the private sector should be doing is that you inevitably wind up with public sector bureaucrats getting rich off the taxpayers’ investment.
Or money getting flushed down the drain on bad deals.
Either way, taxpayers lose.
Take command economic scammer Etta Pisano of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) [...]
Nikki Haley: All In The Family
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s brother-in-law, Dr. Gunjit “Rick” Singh, has been hired by the Medical University of South Carolina as a “clinical assistant professor” in the school’s college of dental medicine.
Singh’s salary information was not immediately available, but you can view his MUSC profile page by clicking here.
The former Lexington County dentist – who has [...]
MUSC Jacks Tuition … Again
A week after being rocked by its latest (but by no means greatest) upper management scandal, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) announced on Tuesday that it was raising tuition on incoming students by an average of 6 percent for the new school year.
This latest increase comes on the heels of a 7 percent [...]
Nikki Haley Canning MUSC Trustee
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley is removing the only African-American female from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)’s board of trustees.
Sources tell FITS that Haley is removing Charleston-based obstetrician Dr. Paula Orr and replacing her with a wealthy white dentist who was unable to get elected to the board a year ago.
Orr was appointed to [...]
Where’s The Beef (Scientist)?
A researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) who recently made international headlines for his work in growing genetically-engineered beef is the subject of an undisclosed controversy at the school.
According to a big story in Thursday’s editions of Charleston Post and Courier, scientist Vladimir Mironov has been suspending indefinitely and his beef-growing lab [...]
Sources: Sanford Investigating MUSC
Gov. Mark Sanford’s office is investigating multiple allegations of fraud, waste and mismanagement at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), sources at the school and inside the governor’s office have told FITS.
Joel Sawyer – the governor’s spokesman – could not be reached for comment concerning the reports, but multiple MUSC staffers have confirmed that [...]
MUSC’s Oath: Plug The Leaks
There’s a new M.O. in the President’s Office at the Medical University of South Carolina these days, and it has nothing to do with cutesie TV shows, budget complaints or fancy new hospitals.
No, the word from the top these days is simple: No more leaks.
Specifically, we’re hearing that the school’s top brass are utterly flabbergasted [...]
