Whittaker and Board of Trustees Chairman Marcos Marchena were present at Wednesday’s meeting but didn’t speak. Whittaker declined to comment on the allegations afterward but said the university took the investigation “very seriously.” Both have told the Sentinel they didn’t know the university was misusing money, though documents obtained by the newspaper and interviews with other university officials show that Whittaker and Hitt agreed to use leftover operating dollars on the new academic building, which opened in August.