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11/14/2007, 09:18 AM
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If those $hysters can be shown the door, that place can gain some national respectability.
ORU faculty gives vote of no confidence
By APRIL MARCISZEWSKI World Staff Writer
11/14/2007
A quorum of tenured Oral Roberts University faculty voted "no confidence" in President Richard Roberts and voted in favor of "greater faculty governance and transparency of university finances" in a 3-1/2-hour meeting Monday night.
Donald R. Vance, professor of biblical languages and literature and one of three authors of a summary of the meeting, said tenured professors want to help ORU's board of regents do what is right. The professors' motions let regents know the voice of the faculty, he said.
The vote of no confidence in Roberts as president and CEO of the university was made "without regard to the outcome of the current lawsuit against the university" and "is not to be construed as a judgment of guilt or innocence with regard to the present lawsuit against the president and the university," according to the list of motions and summary of the meeting faxed to media by Gary Richardson, an attorney for the three former professors who are suing ORU, Roberts and other ORU leadership.
Vance said he did not give the report to Richardson.
The vote regarding Roberts did not address his leadership of Oral Roberts Ministries, and "most people personally like him," Vance said.
The professors voted "confidence" in ORU Provost Mark Lewandowski's "call for greater faculty governance and transparency of university finances," the second motion said.
That motion should not be interpreted as the faculty suggesting Lewandowski be the next ORU president, Vance said.
The tenured faculty also approved a motion to be involved in "determining selection criteria for and the actual selection of university leadership."
The list of motions is signed by the professors who Vance said wrote the summary: Vance, chemistry professor Kenneth Weed and English professor Linda Gray.
Vance said the vote was nearly unanimous. He declined to say how many pro fessors voted in favor of the motions.
ORU's tenured professors usually only meet once at the beginning of the year, he said. This was a special meeting.
Tenured professors have a different role at ORU than at other universities, he said. They are given tenure because they have "demonstrated a loyalty to this university and its mission."
"We are charged with preserving the vision of the university," Vance said.
ORU officials declined to comment on the professors' motions, said ORU spokesman Jeremy Burton.
If those $hysters can be shown the door, that place can gain some national respectability.
ORU faculty gives vote of no confidence
By APRIL MARCISZEWSKI World Staff Writer
11/14/2007
A quorum of tenured Oral Roberts University faculty voted "no confidence" in President Richard Roberts and voted in favor of "greater faculty governance and transparency of university finances" in a 3-1/2-hour meeting Monday night.
Donald R. Vance, professor of biblical languages and literature and one of three authors of a summary of the meeting, said tenured professors want to help ORU's board of regents do what is right. The professors' motions let regents know the voice of the faculty, he said.
The vote of no confidence in Roberts as president and CEO of the university was made "without regard to the outcome of the current lawsuit against the university" and "is not to be construed as a judgment of guilt or innocence with regard to the present lawsuit against the president and the university," according to the list of motions and summary of the meeting faxed to media by Gary Richardson, an attorney for the three former professors who are suing ORU, Roberts and other ORU leadership.
Vance said he did not give the report to Richardson.
The vote regarding Roberts did not address his leadership of Oral Roberts Ministries, and "most people personally like him," Vance said.
The professors voted "confidence" in ORU Provost Mark Lewandowski's "call for greater faculty governance and transparency of university finances," the second motion said.
That motion should not be interpreted as the faculty suggesting Lewandowski be the next ORU president, Vance said.
The tenured faculty also approved a motion to be involved in "determining selection criteria for and the actual selection of university leadership."
The list of motions is signed by the professors who Vance said wrote the summary: Vance, chemistry professor Kenneth Weed and English professor Linda Gray.
Vance said the vote was nearly unanimous. He declined to say how many pro fessors voted in favor of the motions.
ORU's tenured professors usually only meet once at the beginning of the year, he said. This was a special meeting.
Tenured professors have a different role at ORU than at other universities, he said. They are given tenure because they have "demonstrated a loyalty to this university and its mission."
"We are charged with preserving the vision of the university," Vance said.
ORU officials declined to comment on the professors' motions, said ORU spokesman Jeremy Burton.