Two weeks after the U.S. Education Department said in a report that Eastern Michigan University had violated a federal crime-reporting law, in particular for its deceptive response to a murder on the campus in December, the university’s Board of Regents has fired the president, John A. Fallon III, The Ann Arbor News is reporting.

The regents are scheduled to meet today to discuss, among other things, personnel matters stemming from the Education Department findings and a scathing report last month by an outside law firm that also said the university had violated the federal law, known as the Clery Act.

The News reported on its blog that Mr. Fallon had received word of his dismissal in a courier-delivered letter on Sunday night. The letter did not state a reason for the firing, which came a month after 20 professors called for Mr. Fallon’s ouster. The letter also did not state the terms of the dismissal, which was immediate.

More news is expected later today, when the regents hold their scheduled meeting. Now in question are the fate of the university’s vice president for student affairs, who has said he is the scapegoat in the scandal, and the campus’s police chief. The former has been on leave since March, and the latter has cleaned out her office and stopped reporting to work. —Andrew Mytelka