This week, the faculty council at the university approved a no-confidence resolution against President John Fallon III by a vote of 22-to-4 and called for his firing. The university’s Board of Regents may soon decide Mr. Fallon’s fate.

On Feb. 23, a 20-year-old student at Eastern Michigan, Orange Taylor III, was arrested by the campus police and charged with murder and criminal sexual conduct.

Mr. Taylor, who is awaiting trial, had become a suspect in January after a security camera showed him entering the dorm early on the morning Ms. Dickinson was believed to have been killed. DNA analysis showed it was his semen in the room, the police said.

“They kept telling us there was no cause for alarm,” said Asia David, 20, who lived a few floors above Ms. Dickinson. “We were sleeping through this girl being murdered in her room. It just seems like they were really holding stuff back from us.”

The Board of Regents ordered an independent investigation in March by a law firm. A 568-page report, released June 8, revealed that the vice president of student affairs, the public safety chief and the university’s communications office had known that Ms. Dickinson’s death was probably a homicide but had kept the information secret.

The law firm also said that a police document containing lurid details about the crime scene was ordered shredded by James Vick, the vice president for student affairs. Ms. Dickinson had been found spread-eagled on the floor, naked from the waist down, a pillow covering her face and semen on her leg.

Mr. Vick has been on paid administrative leave since early March. He said he had become the “designated scapegoat.” His lawyer said Mr. Vick had the document shredded because he believed police did not want certain facts about the crime to become public.