By Associated Press - Tuesday, April 22, 2014

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - The leadership of the union that covers faculty at the University of Rhode Island is meeting to discuss further steps it can take in response to a plan to have campus police carry guns.

Frank Annunziato says the executive committee of the URI chapter of the American Association of University Professors is meeting Tuesday. Among the steps he says they could take is to hold a vote to express opposition to the plan, which the union’s executive committee and faculty senate have opposed.

The group represents around 700 faculty members.

URI is the nation’s only public university where campus police do not carry firearms.

President David Dooley last week cited safety concerns when he announced campus police would be armed.

URI officials expect that to happen by next spring semester.

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