A Bubbaworld Opinion/Editorial What will $62 million get you? For starters, $62 million will get you a scandal plagued university in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It may also get you the biggest surprise of your life, if you paid $62 million for it. To the surprise of few, if any, the Board of Regents of Oral Roberts [...]
The dog and pony show continues at Oral Roberts University. On Wednesday Richard Roberts the former President and CEO of Oral Roberts University told students at a chapel service that he did not want to resign as head of the scandal-plagued university, but that he did so because God insisted during a conversation with Roberts [...]
Just when it looks like it is time to “turn out the lights, the party’s over”, the Oral Roberts family manages to find another cash cow, saving the family business yet once again. Back in the late 1980′s Oral Roberts announced that God was going to kill him unless the faithful raised $8 million. They [...]
Richard Roberts has resigned as President and CEO of Oral Roberts University. Roberts announced his immediate resignation in a letter to the ORU Board of Regents on Friday. In his letter to the Board of Regents Roberts wrote, “I love ORU with all my heart. I love the students, faculty, staff and administration and I [...]
Richard Roberts may well be his own worst enemy. Roberts has certainly done himself no favors with his recent public statements regarding his stewardship of Oral Roberts University or the scandal that is washing over both the university and Roberts himself. And there appears to be no end to the double-talk and hype, as Richard [...]
Richard Roberts, the embattled President and CEO of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, had another “stink bomb” lobbed his way yesterday when he received a “No Confidence” vote from the tenured faculty at the university. In addition to the vote of no confidence in Richard Roberts, the tenured faculty also voted on two other motions, [...]
