University of Nebraska 'reviewing records' after report about former president's 'inappropriate relationship'

The University of Nebraska now says it is “reviewing records” after Tuesday’s revelation that former President Ted Carter met a woman he has admitted having an “inappropriate relationship” with during his time at NU.

According to a report released Tuesday by The Ohio State University, Carter met podcaster Krisanthe Vlachos while he was still NU president. They “appear to have met at a Veterans in Energy forum in Washington, D.C. in March 2023, when Carter was President of the University of Nebraska System and a keynote speaker at the conference,” the report said.

"The University of Nebraska is aware of the report and is reviewing records for potentially related materials from President Carter’s tenure at Nebraska,” the university said Wednesday in a statement sent by Cara Pesek, senior director of communications for the NU system.

Carter was NU president from 2020-2023. He left to become OSU’s president in January 2024

Carter resigned from that role last month after admitting “an inappropriate relationship with someone seeking public resources to support her personal business.”

According to the report, Vlachos “had extraordinary access” to Carter while he was OSU president, including having at least 24 meetings with him and taking five trips with him.

The report also said at least 14 OSU employees received direct requests from Carter to assist Vlachos. Most of those employees did not agree and Carter did not press the issue further.

However, one employee who did help Carter in his efforts to assist Vlachos, according to the report, was former NU chief financial officer and interim president Chris Kabourek, who followed Carter to Ohio State in the fall of 2024.

According to the report, Kabourek helped to facilitate certain business relationships between Vlachos and OSU, including a podcast and an app.

Kabourek resigned from the university last week, although no reason was given at the time. He was hired two days later to be vice president and chief financial officer at West Virginia University.

Carter and Kabourek were the only OSU employees to resign as part of the scandal.