The state university, UASD, confirmed that it misused funds provided by the UASD-BID-Fundapec for a technical education program. Personnel to be employed in tourism and free zone industries would have been trained by the program. Miguel Rosado, rector of the UASD, confirmed technical and inappropriate management of the RD$7.2 million disbursed by the Inter American Development Bank, RD$17 million by the central government and RD$8 million contributed by the UASD (which is funded by the government) was wasted. The moneys would have gone for the construction of a new building and furnishings for the technical program, planning, and staff. The program which was signed in 1994 had to be suspended in 1998 when it was apparent that the bureaucracy that the program had created was engulfing the funds. Rosado admitted that he found that those in charge of the program had hired the wrong technical people resulting in the failure of the program. Under his administration he put an end to the program that was draining state university resources, after the IDB had suspended funding in 1997. He said he is negotiating with the government how the money would be paid to Fundapec, the local funding organization. Frederich Bergés, president of Fundapec, lamented the failure of the UASD at managing the program, which he said would have succeeded at any of the private universities. He said they have funded programs at 26 Dominican universities and the UASD is their first failure.
