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Monday April 20, 2009
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A trustee of Oral Roberts University and his wife have given a $1 million gift to the school’s scholarship fund that, when matched through a fundraising campaign, will whittle its debt from more than $50 million to around $2.5 million, school officials said Thursday.The debt grew as the university struggled in 2007 amid lawsuits alleging financial and administrative scandal.
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Monday February 23, 2009
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A Tulsa County district judge dismissed a former Oral Roberts University accountant’s claim of fraud Thursday but kept other elements of the lawsuit alive.In a former student’s lawsuit, which also was heard Thursday, the judge made no ruling and set separate hearings in March to continue argument
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Monday February 16, 2009
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Oral Roberts says he does not think his son, who has been accused of misspending funds at the university the evangelist founded, did anything wrong.The younger Roberts, a televangelist, was accused along with his wife, Lindsay, of spending money on shopping sprees, home improvements and a stable of horses for their daughters at a time when ORU was badly in debt. Both have denied wrongdoing.
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Sunday February 10, 2008
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Huddleston, who was hired in 2006 and spent 15 months at the school, said he was discharged because school officials feared he would reveal that the account existed.
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Sunday February 3, 2008
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The power of “spiritual regents” and ultimate leadership by the founder and his family are gone in Oral Roberts University’s revised articles of incorporation and bylaws.
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Friday February 1, 2008
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The Green family’s donation signaled acceptance of its deal with ORU, which requires the college to adopt shared governance, in which professors, administrators and trustees jointly run the university.
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Saturday January 26, 2008
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Former Oral Roberts University professors Tim Brooker and Paulita Brooker filed a new version of their lawsuit Friday, adding and subtracting people they are suing.
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Wednesday January 16, 2008
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Green, who did not attend Oral Roberts, pledged a total of $70 million to the 5,700-student university but allowed only $8 million to be used immediately and withheld the rest until his family could review the school’s financial records and until regents could consider other stipulations.
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Friday January 11, 2008
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Oral Roberts University Business Regent I.V. Hilliard, co-founder of New Light Christian Center Church in Texas; and Regent Emeritus Benny Hinn, who until recently was a business regent, have resigned from the school’s board of regents, according to a press release.
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Thursday December 20, 2007
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In return for a $62 million donation, Oral Roberts University’s board of regents will be asked to share power, the Tulsa World has learned. Mart Green, a Yukon businessman whose family founded the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, released a statement to the World on Tuesday outlining his process for reform at the university.
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In a statement released Tuesday, Oral Roberts University announced that Louisiana minister Jesse Duplantis had resigned his position on the board.
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Tuesday December 11, 2007
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The evangelist Creflo Dollar has resigned from the Oral Roberts University board of regents, and another evangelist, Benny Hinn, has lost his status as a voting member of the board.
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Friday November 30, 2007
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Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University that he did not want to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but that he did so because God insisted. Richards previously claimed God told him to deny allegations made in a lawsuit filed against him.
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Wednesday November 28, 2007
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Oklahoma City businessman Mart Green, founder of Mardel, a Christian office and educational supply store chain, said he decided to help after watching media reports about the school, which recently revealed that it was more than $50 million in debt.
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Sunday November 25, 2007
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To ORU’s 5,300 deeply religious students, the events of recent weeks have brought an unexpected test, one that caused them to choose between questioning or defending the administration, worry about tainted diplomas and search for spiritual answers.
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Saturday November 24, 2007
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The president of Oral Roberts University who is facing accusations he misspent university funds to support a lavish lifestyle resigned from his position, officials said Friday.
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Friday November 23, 2007
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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.
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Three more lawsuits rocked scandal-stricken Oral Roberts University on Wednesday, including one claiming Richard and Lindsay Roberts ordered an accountant to “cook the books” to cover up their illegal use of university money for themselves.
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Saturday November 17, 2007
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Oral Roberts University’s executive vice president of academic affairs and provost offered his resignation to the board of regents on Thursday if the board decides to keep Richard Roberts as president.
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Friday November 16, 2007
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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.
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Thursday November 15, 2007
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Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts asked for a second chance in front of faculty members who days earlier cast a “no confidence” vote against him.
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Friday October 26, 2007
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Oral Roberts University has hired the Washington, D.C., law firm of Miller & Chevalier Chartered to investigate allegations of misspent money and more made in a lawsuit that three former professors filed recently.
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Thursday October 25, 2007
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Oral Roberts University, which is fighting accusations that its president misspent school funds, faces a crippling debt load, the chairman of the school’s board of regents said.
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Wednesday October 24, 2007
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“The board has the oversight of the university, and we’re responsible for what goes on,” he said. “We have every right to ask questions, to investigate.”
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Tuesday October 23, 2007
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Pastors from Detroit called for accountability and integrity at Oral Roberts University and asked for President Richard Roberts to resign at an event that was billed as a rally in support of former professors who are suing the college.
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- Richard and Lindsay Roberts steel themselves for crisis with prayer
- Larry King Live: Oral Roberts' Son On Spending Scandal
- Benny Hinn and Creflo Dollar lose clout on ORU board
- Oral Roberts University loses another regent
- ORU: Prosperity Gospel
- Richard Roberts Says God Forced His Resignation From ORU
- Three former professors file lawsuit against Oral Roberts University
- Two resign from ORU board of regents
- Oral Roberts Univ. 'struggling financially,' with more than $50M in debt, board chairman says
- Richard Roberts denies lawsuit reports
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