ORU search committee makes presidential pick
BY BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
1/16/13 at 3:57 AM
The presidential search committee at Oral Roberts University has selected a candidate who will be presented to the Board of Trustees at its Jan. 29-31 meeting.
If approved by the board, the unnamed candidate would succeed Mark Rutland, who announced last year that he would step down after the current semester.
Jeremy Burton, senior director of university relations and communications, said the candidate will not be identified publicly until the board has acted.
"I don't even know who it is," he said.
He said the committee began to solicit nominations and applications for the post in May and met with a small group of semifinalists Nov. 28.
They made their selection Friday.
Rutland came to ORU in 2009 as the first president who was not a member of the family of ORU's founding president, Oral Roberts.
He guided the university through a critical time after the resignation of Oral Roberts' son, Richard Roberts.
Rutland has said he and his wife, Alison Rutland, will move to the Gainesville, Ga., area, where he will preach twice a month at Free Chapel Church and will continue to write, speak, lecture and consult.
He is the director of the National Institute of Christian Leadership.
Rutland said last year that he thinks he has accomplished what he was brought to ORU to do and that his work there is finished.
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ORU President Mark Rutland: He announced last year that he would step down after the current semester. Rutland has said he and his wife, Alison Rutland, will move to the Gainesville, Ga., area, where he will preach twice a month at Free Chapel Church and will continue to write, speak, lecture and consult.
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