Last week, a five-member panel led by two WVU faculty members issued a report saying high-ranking academic officers and administration officials showed ``seriously flawed'' judgment last fall in revising the academic records of Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch, who is Gov. Joe Manchin's daughter. The result was to award her an executive master's of business administration degree she had not earned.
Those administrators lacked documentation to prove her claims that she'd finished her final semester with work experience credits, relying too heavily on verbal assertions and caving to political pressure, whether real or perceived, the panel said.
The harshest words fell on Lang, the school's chief academic officer, and Sears, who the report said ``should have treated Ms. Bresch like they would or should have treated any other student.''
Faculty Senate Chairman Steve Kite plans to raise the matter at an Executive Committee meeting Monday, but believes that group will wait to see what corrective measures are proposed by Garrison before issuing demands for disciplinary action.
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