Arkansas State University System President Chuck Welch apologized to a booster for how ASU’s athletics foundation handled contract bidding for a piece of a football stadium project, records show.
Welch cited communication missteps during the bidding and said “certain processes,” which he did not specify, will be followed in the future.
Jonesboro businessman Mark Fowler said the Red Wolves Foundation and an athletic department official provided misleading instructions to his home-and-commercial electronics company, HomeTroniX, when it bid for a roughly $500,000 project to furnish the $29 million stadium expansion with televisions and speakers.
Foundation and athletics officials acted with “deception and dishonesty,” Fowler told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.