ORU ALERT@@ New Survey shows 80% want Richard ROBERTS OUT!!!
 

A new survey of ORU faculty shows that most don't want Richard Roberts to remain as president.


More than 80 percent of the Oral Roberts University faculty do not want Richard Roberts to continue as president of the evangelical school, a new survey shows.

The 118-12 "no" vote was part of a larger, eight-question survey conducted twice during Monday's faculty assembly and obtained by The Associated Press. It included vote tallies for each question and the percentage of faculty members voting each way.

The survey comes a week after tenured faculty voted "no confidence" in Roberts as president, regardless of the outcome of a lawsuit that accuses him and his family of misusing ORU and Oral Roberts Ministries money
and resources.

Roberts is on a leave of absence as president while ORU's board and independent auditors investigate the allegations. After the investigations, the board will decide if Roberts returns to the presidency.

Accusations of lavish spending were detailed in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed Oct. 2 by three former ORU professors.

An ORU professor who wished to remain anonymous told the Tulsa World on Monday that faculty gathered for their monthly meeting and responded to survey questions regarding the issues that accreditation representatives raised this month: governance, fiscal accountability and leadership.

Although the faculty have met several times with ORU's regents, they wanted to provide the board with statistics on professors' views of how the university is doing, the professor said.

About 150 full-time faculty, including no one above the level of department chairman or chairwoman, completed the survey, the professor said. Roberts and Provost Mark Lewandowski asked to attend the meeting but were not allowed.

The professor declined to detail the survey's responses or even the questions, wanting regents to have a chance to process the results before the information was made public.

But according to the survey obtained by the AP, nearly 90 percent of the faculty thought the school's current procedures for financial disclosure and accountability were inadequate, and more than 74 percent of those polled did not believe that alumni would continue to support ORU if Richard Roberts remains president.

Additionally, a majority of faculty members thought university administrators, such as the president, deans and department chairs, should be evaluated yearly by the faculty and that faculty should be involved in determining the selection criteria for, and selection of, the school's president.

An ORU spokesman declined to comment on the results late Monday.

Two surveys were taken at the meeting. In the first "pre-survey," nearly 78 percent of faculty members said they believed that Richard Roberts should not continue as president, and about 16 percent were undecided.

After the first survey, tenured faculty members discussed the three motions they passed last week: the "no confidence" vote against Richard Roberts; a vote of "confidence" in Lewandowski, the school's executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, "with regard to his call for greater faculty governance and transparency of university finances;" and the desire of the faculty to have a greater role in how university leadership is selected.

After the discussion, the faculty were polled again.

The "post-survey" revealed that more than 80 percent of faculty members believed that Roberts should not continue as president, while nearly 12 percent were still undecided.

"When it's that overwhelming of a vote, when does Richard start thinking more about the needs of the university than his own needs?" asked Tulsa attorney Gary Richardson, who is representing the three professors in their lawsuit against ORU. "What does the vote have to be?"

The lawsuit against Roberts includes allegations of a $39,000 shopping tab at one store for Richard Roberts' wife, Lindsay Roberts; a $29,411 Bahamas senior trip on the university jet for one of the Roberts' daughters and a stable of horses for the Roberts children.

Richard and Lindsay Roberts have denied wrongdoing and Richard Roberts has said the lawsuit amounts to "intimidation, blackmail and extortion."

Last week, Lewandowski offered to resign in a letter to Regents Chairman George Pearsons, saying he cannot "in good conscience serve under (Roberts') leadership," and wants the board to vote on his offer at its Nov. 27 meeting.

Lewandowski's letter described a "culture of fear" promoted by Roberts' management style and said Roberts has not addressed ORU's increasing debt.


http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/artic..._A1_hAnew85470

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press Writer


TULSA, Okla. — A senior accountant for Oral Roberts University claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that he was ordered to help school president Richard Roberts and his wife "cook the books" by hiding financial wrongdoing from authorities and the public.

Trent Huddleston said in the wrongful termination lawsuit that he was directed against his will to falsely list tens of thousands of dollars as expenses rather than assets _ which were spent remodeling the home of Richard and Lindsay Roberts _ in order to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies.

He claims nearly $123,000 was paid by Oral Roberts University and Oral Roberts Ministries for remodeling the home.

The suit said Huddleston "was improperly and unlawfully directed to perform functions and duties in violation of state and federal law in an effort by the defendants to 'cook the books' and hide from the appropriate authorities and the public the continued wrongdoing, improper and illegal conduct of the defendants, and in particular, of Richard and Lindsay Roberts."

University spokesman Jeremy Burton said the university is reviewing the allegations and had no further comment. Roberts, who has been on temporary leave while an outside probe into the school's finances, has denied wrongdoing.

The suit seeks more than $20,000 in actual and punitive damages.

Huddleston claims he was discharged on the day an audit was to take place. The audit was ordered by the school's regents two weeks after three professors brought a wrongful termination lawsuit against the university accusing Roberts of misusing school funds to support a lavish lifestyle.

Two students also sued Wednesday in district court. Cornell Cross II and David Brown claim the wrongful termination of the three professors ruined the reputation of their degrees.

The lawsuits come after more than 80 percent of the faculty voted this week against Roberts continuing as president at the 5,700-student school.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

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Roberts resigns as ORU president
http://www.tulsaworld.com/common/pri..._1__Richa47602
by: Staff reports
11/23/2007 6:29 PM

Richard Roberts sent a letter to the Oral Roberts University Board of Regents on Friday tendering his resignation as university president effective immediately.

The regents will meet Monday and Tuesday to determine action in the search process for a new president.

Executive Regent Billy Joe Daugherty will continue to assume administrative responsibilities of president, working together with Chancellor Oral Roberts, until the regents meeting.

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