The governor's daughter

The latest news blip involves a governor's daughter who was improperly awarded a master's degree she didn't earn:

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Chastised for showing "seriously flawed" judgment in awarding the governor's daughter a master's degree she didn't earn, West Virginia University is weighing what must be done to recover from the scandal.

President Mike Garrison said late Wednesday it's unclear whether disciplinary action should be taken against the high-ranking academic officers who ordered a change in the academic records of Heather Bresch, daughter of Gov. Joe Manchin.

"West Virginia University is strong, and this process -- and our honest response to it, both from our office and the board of governors -- makes us stronger, and shows that we are a university whose governance is both shared and open," he said.

A panel led by two WVU faculty members issued a damning report Wednesday that said there was no academic foundation for retroactively granting Bresch a 1998 executive master's of business administration degree.

"Mistake was compounded by mistake. An unnecessary rush to judgment, spurred in some measure by an understandable desire to protect a valued alumna and to respond to media pressure, produced a flawed and erroneous result," the panel concluded.

The report does not conclude that Bresch did anything wrong in seeking clarification of her academic record. Nor does it directly fault Garrison, Bresch's longtime friend.

Blah blah blah blah blah.

I haven't checked, but I'm assuming the governor has to be a Democrat, because the piece doesn't say.

But I could be wrong, so I'll check right now.....

Oh yeah.

I'm confident that this won't be another Republican Party scandal.

posted by Eric on 04.24.08 at 10:11 AM





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Should we assume that the six or seven 'responsible' high officials will go forth without so much as a reprimand on their records?

Bob Thompson   ·  April 24, 2008 01:00 PM

Bob - it depends. Do they have any conservative statements or actions on record?

Assistant Village Idiot   ·  April 24, 2008 04:26 PM

Earned or unearned, they are all the same at Rock Thrower U. Get out while you still can! I did.

Rich Rodriguez   ·  April 25, 2008 09:10 AM

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