Talk:Scott Scarborough

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I worked for Scott Scarborough and his two immediate predecessors as president of The University of Akron. I am acting on his behalf to request that this article be updated to show the full picture of his professional life or be deleted. In its current state it is incomplete, poorly sourced and reliant on numerous qualifiers to insert opinion as fact. A draft revision is given below, with the caveat that I am not an unbiased third party seeking to edit this entry; I am requesting an editorial review. Thank you.

Scott L. Scarborough (born Dec. 12, 1962) is an accountant, university professor and retired higher education administrator. His administrative career included stints at the University of Texas System (Audit Manager 1992-96); The University of Texas at Tyler (VP for Business Affairs 1996-2001); Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company (CEO 2001-03); DePaul University (Executive VP for Administration and Student Affairs 2003-07); University of Toledo (Senior VP for Finance and Administration for the University and Medical Center 2007-11, Executive Director of the University of Toledo Medical Center 2010-12, and Provost and Executive VP for Academic Affairs, 2012-14); and The University of Akron, where he was president from 2014 to 2016.

At the beginning of his appointment at The University of Akron, the university was heavily in debt and had reported several years of declining revenue and enrollment toward the end of his predecessor's 15-year-tenure, which had seen major, expensive expansions. Scarborough sought to overcome those financial problems through budget cuts, rebranding and new partnerships, but his decisions were met with substantial opposition, and he returned to teaching after only two years as president.

Scarborough currently teaches as a Professor of Practice at UA and owns the S|CPA Network with accounting offices in Stow (Akron) and Toledo, Ohio; and Austin and Houston, Texas. He has a BBA in accounting (The University of Texas-Austin, 1985), an MBA (UT-Tyler 1999), a MA in practical theology (Ohio Christian University, 2018), a master's in taxation (The University of Akron, 2020), and a Ph.D. in strategic management (UT-Arlington, 2003). He is a Certified Public Account in Ohio and Texas. PaulAHerold (talk) 22:10, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

To help clarify things, here are some additional reliable sources (or potentially reliable) that can help determine proper weight to give various aspects, while keeping coverage proportional, minimizing recentism, and maintaining a high quality BLP-compliant article. I'm not familiar with the particulars here, and I'm not saying every news article here or in existence must be cited, as articles are not blind compilations of all possible information, and mere verifiability does not guarantee inclusion. --Animalparty! (talk) 22:47, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

• "Dr. Scott L. Scarborough named UA's 16th President". University of Akron News. The University of Akron, Ohio. May 8, 2014.
• Magaw, Timothy (May 2, 2015). "Meet Akron's newest power couple". Crain's Cleveland Business.
• Scott, Mark (November 1, 2015). "Scott Scarborough confident better days ahead at UA". Smart Business Magazine.
• Farkas, Karen (May 31, 2016). "University of Akron President Scott Scarborough resigns". Cleveland.com.
• Farkas, Karen (May 31, 2016). "See the ill-fated timeline of former University of Akron President Scott Scarborough's tenure". Cleveland.com.
• WKSU (June 3, 2016). "University of Akron's Former President Scott Scarborough Opts for Professorship and $1.5 Million". WKSU.
• Pignolet, Jennifer (July 21, 2020). "Former president Scarborough on list of University of Akron faculty to be cut". Akron Beacon Journal.