William Hazell Jr. (July 9, 1908 – January 26, 1995)[1] was the fifth President of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) from 1970 until 1975.
[5] Hazell spent more than 40 years at NJIT (then known as the Newark College of Engineering) as a student, teacher, and administrator.
He conceived the idea of the Greater Newark Science Fair which began in 1963 and planned the student extracurricular program.
He was also a member of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and Omicron Delta Kappa.
His tenure oversaw the renaming of the school from the Newark College of Engineering to New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1975.