Finding 1179941 (2025-004)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
I
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2026-03-17
Audit: 392281
Organization: Northern Illinois University (IL)
Auditor: RSM US LLP

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Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1179939 2025-003
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1179940 2025-003
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1179942 2025-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1179943 2025-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1179944 2025-005
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.268 FEDERAL DIRECT STUDENT LOANS $65.30M
84.063 FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM $37.35M
84.038 FEDERAL PERKINS LOAN PROGRAM_FEDERAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS $1.32M
84.184 SCHOOL SAFELY NATIONAL ACTIVITIES $1.13M
84.033 FEDERAL WORK-STUDY PROGRAM $936,550
84.007 FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS $890,023
84.335 CHILD CARE ACCESS MEANS PARENTS IN SCHOOL $874,178
81.000 High Luminosity (HL) LHC CMS Detector Upgrade Project Endcap Calorimeter $606,151
15.808 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION $561,394
84.325 SPECIAL EDUCATION - PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT TO IMPROVE SERVICES AND RESULTS FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES $518,835
12.431 BASIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH $501,020
10.310 AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH INITIATIVE (AFRI) $359,275
84.324 RESEARCH IN SPECIAL EDUCATION $322,674
11.611 MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PARTNERSHIP $315,644
93.855 ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES RESEARCH $281,543
93.107 AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS $276,187
11.000 NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION $237,315
81.049 OFFICE OF SCIENCE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM $231,824
81.000 Brian Toonen CY24-25 $215,834
84.015 NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS PROGRAM FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM $210,093
84.129 REHABILITATION LONG-TERM TRAINING $192,656
93.867 VISION RESEARCH $189,439
47.049 MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES $147,437
84.042 TRIO STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES $144,519
59.059 CONGRESSIONAL GRANTS $141,330
16.026 OVW RESEARCH AND EVALUATION PROGRAM $140,799
81.086 CONSERVATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT $136,999
81.000 Tao Li Joint Appointment $135,493
16.525 GRANTS TO REDUCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DATING VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND STALKING ON CAMPUS $122,384
81.000 Center for Steel Electrification by Electrosynthesis $115,890
93.243 SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PROJECTS OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE $108,946
12.300 BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH $100,235
81.000 Transmission electron microscopy characterization of coated cathode materials $97,187
43.001 SCIENCE $95,549
45.149 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS $94,675
81.000 Studying the solvation structures of sodium batteries $94,134
84.021 OVERSEAS PROGRAMS - GROUP PROJECTS ABROAD $90,712
12.000 ISSUE OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EXCESS EQUIPMENT $84,425
81.000 Xueying Lu's Joint Appointment $81,286
47.076 STEM EDUCATION (FORMERLY EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES) $81,255
84.379 TEACHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE FOR COLLEGE AND HIGHER EDUCATION GRANTS (TEACH GRANTS) $74,731
11.307 ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE $74,075
93.242 MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS $69,814
81.000 Electrode Surface Protection by Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAM) for lithium Battery FY23 $65,500
15.611 WILDLIFE RESTORATION AND BASIC HUNTER EDUCATION AND SAFETY $65,425
81.000 Beam Dynamic Studies at Fermilab $64,028
84.425 COVID 19 EDUCATION STABILIZATION FUND $63,416
15.922 NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT $61,845
81.000 NIU to Argonne Joint Appointment: Dr. Andreas Glatz. FY23 $60,957
17.502 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH SUSAN HARWOOD TRAINING GRANTS $60,167
45.160 PROMOTION OF THE HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIPS AND STIPENDS $60,000
81.000 Structural Investigations of Advanced Functional Materials using Neuron and X-ray Scattering $59,993
81.000 Collaboration with Argonne National Lab - Electrospun fibers for water filtration $58,626
81.000 Accelerator Design for PIP-II Era Accumulator Rings $57,762
81.000 Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) $55,601
47.083 INTEGRATIVE ACTIVITIES $53,469
93.000 WINNEBAGO COUNTY DRUG COURT EVALUATION PROJECT $48,866
81.000 Correlative electron microscopy and Synchrotron X-ray characterization of battery materials $47,423
81.000 Integrating perception, action, and cognition in telemanipulation for nuclear waste management $45,533
11.015 BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT $41,974
81.000 GRA Support - Jared Coles $38,948
81.000 Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE):FD2 PDS $38,244
81.000 Modeling Support to Advance the Performance of Next-generation Batteries at Argonne - GRA Support $37,298
81.000 Automatic Segmentation of Low-Contrast High-Energy Tomography $36,742
81.000 Higher order mode based controls $36,130
81.000 Advanced Characterization of Sustainable Cathode Oxides - GRA Support $35,795
84.287 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS $33,371
81.000 Robot-assisted assembly for PIP-II SRF couplers $31,583
47.084 NSF TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS $28,739
93.859 BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING $27,698
12.630 BASIC, APPLIED, AND ADVANCED RESEARCH IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING $27,450
93.434 EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT/PRESCHOOL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS $24,087
10.001 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH $23,805
81.000 ALCF - Annual User Survey $23,303
81.000 Detectors for High-granularity Dual Readout Calorimetry $23,004
47.070 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING $22,725
93.879 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSISTANCE $21,588
19.415 PROFESSIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS - CITIZEN EXCHANGES $21,147
43.008 OFFICE OF STEM ENGAGEMENT (OSTEM) $21,021
47.078 POLAR PROGRAMS $20,642
10.727 INFLATION REDUCTION ACT URBAN & COMMUNITY FORESTRY PROGRAM $20,000
98.001 USAID FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FOR PROGRAMS OVERSEAS $19,980
10.243 AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE FOR MEAT AND POULTRY PROCESSING AND FOOD SAFETY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PHASE III $17,973
15.634 STATE WILDLIFE GRANTS $17,887
93.575 CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT $17,375
84.116 FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION $16,652
81.000 Development of All Solid-State Battery using Anti-Perovskite Electrolytes $16,638
81.000 Physics and application of patterned superconducting nanostructures - GRA Support $15,982
84.011 MIGRANT EDUCATION STATE GRANT PROGRAM $14,221
20.205 HIGHWAY PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION $12,871
47.079 OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING $12,826
81.000 Investigating Solid State Battery Materials with X-ray Technique $9,858
81.000 US AHEAD Bootcamp $7,280
93.000 PILOT TESTING OF EXOSKELETON APPLICATIONS IN PATIENT HANDLING TASKS MEARSUREMENT SELECTION $7,132
47.050 GEOSCIENCES $6,931
81.000 GRA Support - Emily Frame $6,678
47.075 SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL, AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES $6,074
47.074 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES $4,759
45.312 NATIONAL LEADERSHIP GRANTS $4,101
81.000 Flexible, compact, flat REBCO cables for high-field accelerator magnets $3,780
47.041 ENGINEERING $1,575
81.000 PIP-II Warm Unit Structure Pre-Production Testing $1,115
93.262 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAM $819
81.087 RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT $708
66.460 NONPOINT SOURCE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS $659
81.000 Development of the MU2E Design $196
19.400 ACADEMIC EXCHANGE PROGRAMS - GRADUATE STUDENTS $-24
84.047 TRIO UPWARD BOUND $-200
45.301 MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA $-421
10.226 SECONDARY EDUCATION, TWO-YEAR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, AND AGRICULTURE IN THE K-12 CLASSROOM $-687
81.000 Zhili Xiao's Joint Appointment $-69,040