ORU pays off Richard; cutting 100 jobs

From Christianity Today magazine:
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"Just days after Oral Roberts University announced that it will give former president Richard Roberts more than $440,000 in severance pay, the Tulsa school said it will be eliminating 100 jobs, about 10% of its workforce, in January 2009. .
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“'Like any business, a university cannot spend more revenue than it collects,' wrote board chair Mart Green and interim president Ralph Fagin in a letter to the ORU family. 'We have a responsibility to all of you to be good stewards of our resources.'”
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The rest of the article can be read here..

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I interviewed ORU's Dean of the School of Theology and Missions, Thomson Mathew, for this blog. That interview can be read here. An interview I did with ORU professor of theology Larry Hart can be read here.