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Attorney General: Hardin Bonus Likely Illegal

                   
nwaonline.net
Jul 23, 2008
        
Story Timeline:  81 days

By John Lyon The Morning News LITTLE ROCK - The University of Central Arkansas Board of Trustees' decision to use an endowment fund to give university president Lu Hardin a $300,000 bonus likely violated state law, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Tuesday. In an opinion requested by university board chairman Randy Sims, McDaniel said cash funds of a university are public funds and cannot legally be used to increase a university employee's pay in excess of state-mandated salary caps. Neither the board nor Hardin publicly disclosed the bonus he received in May. After the bonus became public, Hardin said the money came from private donations, then later acknowledged it came from money the university received from food vendors and the campus bookstore. Hardin returned the bonus to the university last week. University... [read full story]                    

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UCA board, president apologize for bonus secrecy

 fox16.com Jul 25, 2008
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Lu's Saga: Greed, Arrogance

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UCA board, president apologize for bonus secrecy

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Jul 25, 2008
        

CONWAY, Ark. (AP) - University of Central Arkansas President Lu Hardin and the school's board of trustees on Friday apologized for the lack of openness about a $300,000 bonus awarded to Hardin - and returned by him - that has...

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Jul 25, 2008
        

LITTLE ROCK - University of Central Arkansas President Lu Hardin advised the university's board Thursday that he has experienced a recurrence of cancer in his right eye and will undergo surgery Aug. 12. Hardin previously...

Documents: Hardin Asked For Bonus, Urged Secrecy

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Jul 24, 2008
        

LITTLE ROCK - University of Central Arkansas President Lu Hardin asked the university board for early payment of a $300,000 bonus that Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has said likely violated state law, documents obtained by...

                   
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Lu's Saga: Greed, Arrogance

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Jul 23, 2008
        

Finally, after agonizing drips of information, resisted at every turn by supposed public servants at a taxpayer-underwritten university, we can develop a reasonably coherent narrative in this brouhaha about Lu Hardin and the...