ASU Foundation to amend tax forms after article on ASU President Crow and wife, Sybil Francis

Michael Crow

By Ray Stern | Phoenix New Times

he Arizona State University Foundation will amend four years of tax forms following an Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting article this week about ASU President Michael Crow and his wife, Sybil Francis. The article, by ASU journalism student Charles T. Clark, raises new questions about the six-digit salary paid to Francis by the foundation, the university’s nonprofit, fundraising arm, which is funded by private contributors.

Francis’ lucrative role at the foundation and the ethics of it were first mentioned prominently in a controversial 2008 report by labor-union supporters and workers with the Texas contracting company who built ASU’s SkySong multiuse development. The foundation said at the time that the report by Coalition for Justice at Great Western Erectors was a smear job concocted by disgruntled SkySong laborers.

Clark’s story focuses on “oddities” in the foundation’s IRS Form 990s in the years since then.

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