(KYW/WFMZ/CNN) - It looks like President Donald Trump will be losing one of his honorary degrees.
Faculty members at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania voted overwhelmingly to rescind the degree they gave him in 1988.
Trump was the commencement speaker for that year's graduating class. It was standard for all commencement speakers to be given honorary diplomas at that time.
The university says the motion was not meant to serve as a comment on Trump's political views or positions.
Even so, faculty members "don't want Lehigh to be identified with the kind of sexist, racist, and Islamophobic utterances" the president has made.
The board of trustees has to approve the vote.
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