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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman Apr 27, 2008 10:14pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| News Date | Friday, April 25, 2008 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | West Virginia University administrators made a "seriously flawed" decision fraught with favoritism in awarding Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch a graduate degree she didn't earn, investigators said in a scathing report released yesterday.
Provost Gerald Lang said he would follow the recommendation of the investigative panel and the university's Board of Governors and rescind the degree.
The report by the five-member panel concluded administrators acted hastily, using ambiguous and incomplete information to award an M.B.A. degree retroactively in October to Ms. Bresch, the daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin.
The decision was made following a telephone conversation between the governor's daughter and WVU President Michael Garrison, a family friend and former business associate of Ms. Bresch, the report said.
The report concluded administrators falsified Ms. Bresch's transcript by adding courses to her record that she did not take and by entering grades "simply pulled from thin air." The actions reflected "failures of process and failures of leadership" at the state's flagship university, it said.
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Asked how the university allowed favoritism to guide awarding the degree, Mr. Garrison replied, "the report speaks for itself." He has denied any involvement in the decision to grant the degree. Ms. Bresch's relationships with the governor, WVU and Mylan, whose chairman, Milan Puskar, is WVU's biggest benefactor, had no influence on the decision, Mr. Lang said.
WVU mathematics professor Sherman Riemenschneider, the faculty senate member who sponsored the Jan. 14 motion to appoint three outsiders to the panel to bolster its independence, said he will confer with other senate members "about an appropriate motion to bring forward concerning the provost and the president, if they do not resign prior to that." |
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