April Marciszewski, The Tulsa World, November 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.
Speaking of Republican religious insanity:
But best of all is his timeline of the Georgia rain prayer effort:
1. Georgia is in severe drought
2. Governor Perdue decides to pray for rain on Tuesday
3. Forecast called for rain Tuesday
4. Prayer service goes ahead as planned
5. Skies completely clear up immediately following prayer service
6. No rain
(I know exactly how he must feel. God rarely answers my prayers these days, too.)
Comment by Daddy-O — November 15, 2007 @ 3:02 am