Eastern Michigan University, still reeling from the apparent cover-up of a student’s murder in December, announced on Monday that it had fired its president, its vice president for student affairs, and its campus-police director. But the chairman of the university’s Board of Regents said, without elaborating, that the president’s dismissal was not related to the murder case.
The president, John A. Fallon III, was fired on Sunday afternoon by a unanimous vote of the regents, who informed him of the dismissal in a letter delivered by courier to his home that evening. The board re-enacted the vote before a crowd of 200 in the university’s main administrative building on Monday.