WVU to Alter Panel Probing Records Flap

State Journal, The, January, 2008 by Kasey, Pam

MORGANTOWN - An investigative panel appointed to review the records of West Virginia University's Executive MBA program will be reconfigured following Jan. 14 recommendations from the WVU Faculty Senate.

Provost Gerald Lang created the three-member Special Investigative Panel for review of Executive MBA Program Records Jan. 2 to investigate whether former student Heather Bresch completed all of the coursework for her executive MBA degree.

The question was raised in a Dec, 21 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article stating that WVU had been unable in early October to find records of the Mylan Inc. executive's diploma, but it later reversed itself.

WVU College of Business and Economics Dean R. Stephen Sears has said he made a judgment call based on Bresch's academic...

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