The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) announced today that it has completed an audit of a $299,999 grant awarded to Arcadia University in Glenside in 2022.

The purpose of the grant was to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus. As of March 2026, Arcadia had received $228,931 of the total grant.  

According to the notice, the objectives of the audit “were to determine whether costs claimed under the grant were allowable, supported, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and terms and conditions of the award; and to determine whether Arcadia demonstrated adequate progress towards achieving program goals and objectives.”

The results of the audit are as follows:

The DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that Arcadia worked to prevent and improve its response to incidents of sexual violence, and that its subrecipients provided victim services and enhanced both awareness and prevention programming. However, we identified areas for improvement related to performance reports, grant expenditures, and subrecipient monitoring. Specifically, we found that Arcadia did not retain or have readily available support for its performance reports, lacked adequate documentation of time spent on grant-related activities, and did not adequately monitor its subrecipient financial invoices or performance.

The OIG made four recommendations to OVW to improve Arcadia’s management of award performance, grant expenditures, and subrecipient monitoring. OVW and Arcadia agreed with all four recommendations, and the OIG closed all four recommendations prior to issuing this report based on documentation showing that Arcadia had taken appropriate corrective actions.

The full audit can be found below:

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