Dive Brief:

• The former Illinois State University president who resigned from his $350,000-a-year position over his actions during a tirade directed at the university’s grounds superintendent was found guilty of disorderly conduct on Monday.
• Timothy Flanagan was sentenced to 12 months of court supervision, 30 hours of community service and to pay a $300 fine plus court costs. If he complies, no conviction will go on his record.
• Flanagan’s only comment to reporters was a 70-word printed statement handed out after he left the courtroom: “I regret raising my voice during this encounter and my choice of words was ill advised.”

Dive Insight:

According to prosecutors, on Dec. 5, 2013, Flanagan screamed at Patrick Murphy in a violent and threatening manner while standing between three feet and a couple of inches from his face. Murphy was at the university-owned presidential residence supervising a team of grounds workers, and Flanagan apparently became enraged because his decorative lights that were on shrubs had been moved outside the residence. Murphy was fired, but the university later hired him for another position.