Proposed bill: Make colleges' spending public

Wayne Washington:

Want to know how much the University of South Carolina spends to mow the grass on the Horseshoe? What about how much Clemson University doles out to clean the carpet in its board room?

If legislation expected to be prefiled in the state House of Representatives passes, the answer to those questions and many, many others will be a few mouse clicks away for South Carolinians. The legislation, which will be called The Higher Education Transparency Act of 2011 and which was backed by House Speaker Bobby Harrell at a press conference Wednesday, will require that public colleges and universities post every penny of their expenditures online.

Much of the schools' spending is already posted on the Web, but Republican legislators have leaned on school officials to go further.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 29, 2010 1:01 AM
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