The AP reports that Richard Roberts, president of the evangelical Oral Roberts University, resigned on Friday, after receiving a vote of no confidence from the school's tenured faculty last week. Roberts, who was the son of the university's founder Oral Roberts, had been accused in a civil suit filed by three former faculty members of financial improprieties, as well as of requiring students in a government class to work on the campaign of a particular Republican candidate in the mayoral primary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (See prior posting.) ORU Board of Regents Chairman George Pearsons posted a brief announcement of the resignation on the University's website, indicating that the regents will meet next week to determine the next steps to take in searching for a successor.
UPDATE: An AP story on Saturday chronicles the reactions of students and others in the ORU community to the resignation.
