The Common Management System
(CMS ? PEOPLESOFT)

• AB 491, (Assemblymember Manny Diaz, San Jose) addresses the concerns raised by the state auditor about the CSU's Common Management System (CMS) and would enact many of the auditor's recommendations. It would require the CSU administration to analyze and justify expenditures, avoid potential conflicts of interest, and disclose donations made by contractors to the university or its foundations. AB 491 would also require that the CSU administration protect electronic records containing confidential information about students, faculty, and staff. To see the text of the bill and to learn its status in the legisalture, go to:
  http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_491&sess=CUR&house=B&author=diaz

• Learn what CMS is all about and what have been CFA’s concerns in the “CFA Research Brief on the Common Management System” June 7, 2002.
  
  

• Get an overview of the state audit of CMS in “CFA Research Brief #4: The state audit of the Common Management System,” March 2003.
  
  

• See the whole 183-page audit report, "California State University: Its Common Management System Has Higher Than Reported Costs, Less Than Optimal Functionality, and Questionable Procurement and Conflict-of-Interest Practices.
  
  

• The State Auditor now has a summary on their Web site at:
  http://www.bsa.ca.gov/bsa/summaries/2002-110.html
  
  

• Watch the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, composed of members of the California State Senate and Assembly excoriate Chancellor Charles Bass Reed and colleagues at a hearing on the CMS audit report, televised by the California Channel. http://www.calchannel.com/april2003.htm
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