The university had placed that administrator, Paul Pless, on administrative leave on Sept. 7 pending the inquiry’s outcome, and he resigned his position on Nov. 4, the university said in a formal statement.

A team of investigators concluded that Pless, who’d held his post since 2004, “knowingly and intentionally” miscalculated the incoming-student data the school reported annually to both the American Bar Association and U.S. News & World Report.