URI President David Dooley will not give any advice to the board regarding Flynn’s honorary title, a school spokesman told the Providence Journal.
Dooley had asked the school’s honorary degree committee to talk about Flynn’s honor, which was awarded in 2014.
The committee sent a tip to Dooley for consideration, which will be made public, school spokeswoman Linda Acciardo told the newspaper.
“The board of trustees supports the president’s resolution and no action will be taken at this time,” Acciardo said at one point. “It does not convey advice to the trustees. The title remains.
The spokesman said later on June 28 that the board of trustees had taken a position or voted on the honorary title.
The university expressed its sadness with Flynn after pleading guilty to mendacity to the FBI in 2017.
At the time, the URI said the movements of the Rhode Island local and a retired army lieutenant general did not reflect the university’s values or its “expectations of other people in public service. “
Flynn pardoned through Trump last year and served as Trump’s national security adviser in the early weeks of 2017 before resigning following reports that he misled Trump officials about his contacts with Russia.
Flynn grew up in Middletown, Rhode Island and graduated from URI in 1981, where he was a member of the school’s Army ROTC program.
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