NJIT Board Fires Professor Over Alleged Ethics Violations

A professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology has been stripped of his tenure and fired, a first in the school’s nearly 130-year history, NJ.com reported Friday.

Members of the school’s board of trustees said David Hawk, a former dean at the School of Management who worked at NJIT for three decades, changed a colleague’s failing grade to an A. Hawk also hired a woman he lived with without disclosing the nature of their relationship, the trustees also said.

Hawk denied he committed any violations of ethics and fought the charges, filing a lawsuit in 2011 against the school. In an interview with NJ.com Hawk described the allegations against him as “false."