Officials at Roger Williams University said today that they would comply with a request from Ralph R. Papitto, the former board chairman who used a racial slur, to remove his name from the university’s law school.

David A. Logan, the law school’s dean, said in a written statement that the original name — the Roger Williams University School of Law — had been restored. “In coming weeks, all references to the Ralph R. Papitto School of Law will be removed in an appropriate and orderly way,” he said.

In another written statement, the university’s president, Roy J. Nirschel, thanked Mr. Papitto for making the “difficult decision” to ask that his name be removed from the law school he helped found.

Roger Williams is hardly the first university to purge a donor’s name after a scandal. In 2005 Seton Hall University removed the name of L. Dennis Kozlowski, the felonious former chief executive of Tyco, from a building and a rotunda. Also in 2005 Washington and Jefferson College decided not to follow a plan to name a building for an alumnus, Alberto W. Vilar, who had been charged with money laundering and fraud. —Paul Fain