Following the recent resignation announcements of four Ohio University deans, yet another top administrator is seeking a position elsewhere.
Brice Bible, OU’s chief information officer, has been listed as a finalist for the vice president for Information Technology and chief information officer position at Florida International University.
Bible is one of six finalists for the position and will speak at a forum at the university May 13. He did not respond to repeated calls for comment.
“… I am pleased to invite the university community to meet the top six candidates at the open forums scheduled during the next two weeks,” said Irma Becerra-Fernandez, FIU’s vice provost for academic affairs, in a statement. “These open forums provide an opportunity to meet the candidates, learn about their vision, and ask relevant questions.”
Bible, who currently earns $218,463, directly reports to OU President Roderick McDavis.
McDavis did not know about Bible being named until yesterday afternoon, said Becky Watts, McDavis’ chief of staff.
The president was not aware Bible had been searching for another position, Watts said, adding McDavis did not have a comment.
Bible had also not informed Pam Benoit, OU’s executive vice president and provost, about his search.
“We didn’t know that,” Fidler said. “(Bible’s search) is not something I believe (he and the provost) had talked about, but I don’t sit in on all their meetings.”
In June 2010, The Post reported complaints from several administrators that accused Bible of making sexist comments at meetings and having had an affair with one employee’s wife.
They said Bible’s professional and personal problems were putting OU’s quarters-to-semesters transition at risk.
“Don’t let ‘the talk’ slow you down. Just stay out of it,” Bible said in a staff meeting held after The Post reported the administrators’ complaints. “Stay so busy that it’s just not something that you’re going to engage in because it doesn’t help you. It doesn’t help the university. It doesn’t help my children or anybody else’s children. So just stay out of it.”
Bible would be the second top administrator to leave Athens for FIU.
In December, then-OU Vice President for University Advancement Howard Lipman also left for FIU. He is the university’s senior vice president for University Advancement and executive director of the FIU Foundation.
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