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Grand Canyon University has fired a vice president at the school after learning of an investigation into a student’s allegation of sexual assault by the man at another university.

An investigation into Roy Shick by the University of Washington found an accusation from a student athlete to be “extremely credible,” according to the

Seattle Times. Shick was the senior associate athletic director at the time.

GCU didn’t know about the investigation until a reporter contacted them on June 7. They immediately put Shick on administrative leave “while conducting our own inquiry,” GCU spokesman Bob Romantic said.

Shick was then terminated on Sunday, Romantic said.

The university said it conducted a background check on Shick “as part of our normal onboarding process,” Romantic said.

“That background check did not reveal any misconduct,” Romantic said.

GCU said it couldn’t comment further because the situation is a “personnel matter.”

The student told investigators that in 2017 she was offered a ride home from Shick, who then sexually assaulted her in his vehicle, the Seattle Times reported. She didn’t immediately report the incident to school officials, but told several other people about it soon after it happened.

The investigation wasn’t made public until it was disclosed via a public records request.

GCU told the Times it hired Shick as a vice president in November 2018, eight months after the University of Washington completed its investigation.

Shick has ties to an Arizona university: Before he worked at the University of Washington, he worked in a fundraising role at Arizona State University in the early 2000s.

A post on the Western Washington University website from 2008 says Shick was joining the University of Washington after spending “six years in a variety of fundraising capacities at Arizona State.” Shick is a WWU alumni.

“He began his time at ASU in the department’s ticket office for two years before moving into a position with the Sun Angel Foundation, the athletic development branch of the university. He served two years with the department’s annual fund before moving into major gifts,” the post says.