{"id":347485,"date":"2026-06-05T03:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347485\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:01:29","slug":"ocu-should-have-donor-money-friday-says-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347485\/","title":{"rendered":"OCU should have donor money Friday, says President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; 14 News continues to reach out each day to Oakland City University President Ron Dempsey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thursday, he told us the donors just received the money needed to pay employees, and it should be available to OCU Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, the bank will probably hold it, and checks won\u2019t be generated until next week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dempsey says then they\u2019ll be able to pay the May 8th and May 22nd payroll. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">June 5\u2019s payroll will come later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We\u2019ve reported new time frames from Dempsey several times over the last six weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/2026\/06\/03\/donors-still-gathering-ocu-president-gives-update-money-transcripts\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/2026\/06\/03\/donors-still-gathering-ocu-president-gives-update-money-transcripts\/\">[\u2018Donors still gathering;\u2019 OCU President gives update on money and transcripts]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We also asked Dr. Dempsey about refunds for students who have paid housing and other deposits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He says those students are being reimbursed. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/page\/14-news-streaming-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"wfie apps\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780628489_326_3ABJKZTA4RCT5CI42747VCTX3M.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFIE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; 14 News continues to reach out each day to Oakland City University President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-347485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}