The Temple University board of trustees issued a vote of no confidence in the school’s president, Neil D. Theobald, and plans to seek his removal in connection with a $22 million deficit in the university’s financial aid budget, the board chairman said in a statement on Tuesday.

The chairman, Patrick J. O’Connor, said that Dr. Theobald “must be held accountable” for the deficit and that the president had been offered an opportunity to resign, which he refused, according to the statement.

The board will seek Dr. Theobald’s dismissal at a meeting on Thursday.

The announcement came after the removal of the university’s provost, Hai-Lung Dai, for his apparent involvement in the $22 million over-allocation of merit scholarships for the 2016-17 academic year, PhillyVoice reported.

Dr. Dai, who joined Temple in 2007, was provost for four years. After he was dismissed last month, members of Temple’s faculty began an online petition calling for scrutiny by the board of the president’s leadership, PhillyVoice reported.