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Miami University puts regional director of admission, financial aid on paid leave

file photo Archie Nelson

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By Eric Schwartzberg, Staff Writer Updated 8:44 PM Wednesday, February 22, 2012

OXFORD — Miami University’s regional director for admission and financial aid has been placed on paid leave while university officials investigate an alleged violation of university policy.

Miami officials would not say why Archie Nelson, who appears in advertisements for the university’s Middletown and Hamilton satellite campuses, was placed on leave Feb. 6.

The investigation is being conducted by the university’s Office of Equity and Equal Opportunity, which deals with harassment or discrimination-related concerns.

“It is an investigation that we’re doing internally,” said Claire Wagner, the university’s spokeswoman. “It is a complaint from an employee, so it does not involve students.”

Nelson, who started at the university in 1994, currently is paid an annual salary of $71,138, Wagner said.

She declined to comment further on the investigation, which she said could take approximately two to three weeks to complete.

Reached at his Fairfield home Wednesday afternoon, Nelson said he did not want to comment on the investigation.

Nelson earned two associate degrees in business during his 22-year Navy career and completed a bachelor’s degree just before he got out, but could not get a business career going and enrolled at Miami University Hamilton in the 1990s to start working on a master’s degree.

After one year, he was offered a job as a veteran’s peer rep. He subsequently became a counselor, then the assistant director of admissions. Then as he moved into a director’s position, he started to tie recruiting and financial aid together as a singular process.

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