TULSA Okla.
More than 80 percent of the faculty at Oral Roberts University 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 against ORU that accuses him of improper spending.
Roberts has been on temporary leave while an investigation into the school’s finances continues.
Accusations of lavish spending were detailed in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed Oct. 2 by three former ORU professors.
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 as president, according to the survey.
