Universities Must Allow Audits, High Court Rules
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Mexico’s Supreme Court has limited the autonomy that public universities here enjoy by law, ruling that they must submit to audits of how they use government funds.
A university claimed that its autonomy--the legal status by which police, government officials and troops need special permission to enter campuses--also exempted it from Congress’ attempts to investigate the funds.
But a five-member court panel ruled unanimously that “autonomy can never be interpreted as the creation of fiefdoms ... beyond the fundamental rules of the state.”
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