{"id":395277,"date":"2026-09-09T23:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395277\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:44:22","slug":"st-thomas-university-president-resigns-after-being-placed-on-leave-during-policy-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395277\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Thomas University president resigns after being placed on leave during policy investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0September 9, 2026 at 10:35 AM<\/p>\n

Updated:\u00a0September 9, 2026 at 11:49 AM<\/p>\n

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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 David Armstrong has resigned as president of St. Thomas University after eight years leading the private Catholic university in Miami Gardens, the school announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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School officials confirmed that Armstrong and St. Thomas jointly agreed to his departure. <\/p>\n

In a statement to Local 10 News, the university thanked Armstrong for his contributions and said it wished him well in his future endeavors.<\/p>\n

The resignation follows an investigation into allegations that Armstrong violated university policy. According to the Miami Herald<\/a>, Armstrong had been placed on leave while the university investigated the claims. <\/p>\n

Rev. Rafael Cap\u00f3, who serves as the university\u2019s vice president for Mission and Ministry, will oversee the duties of the president during the transition, according to university officials. <\/p>\n

Armstrong became president in 2018 and led the university for eight years. <\/p>\n

The university has not provided additional details about the circumstances surrounding Armstrong\u2019s resignation or the policy investigation. <\/p>\n

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Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 9, 2026 at 10:35 AM Updated:\u00a0September 9, 2026 at 11:49 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 David…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-395277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}