The per capita investment made by the government in the state university UASD could serve to pay for each student to study in a private university and there would be money left over. The wasteful spending at the state university is notorious. A recent report in Listin Diario on the matter reveals another hard to explain evidence of this lack of efficiency in the operating of the state university.
As reported in Listin Diario, a building installed with 24 high tech labs that was delivered to the university in 2012 has never been put into operation. The labs are now obsolete.
The Listin Diario report describes the building as a white elephant. Taxpayers payed the bill of RD$2 billion to build the Edificio de Alta Tecnología that was reportedly delivered in 2012. In 2015, Rector Ivan Grullon Fernandez formally received the building from the director of the Office of Supervisory Works of the Presidency (OISOE). But the later has never entered into operation.
Listin Diario reports that another building with modern equipment, the new seismology center, is another not yet in operation.
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Listin Diario
4 April 2018
