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Follow on Google News | Did Governors Daughter Earn Her College Degree From West Virginia University Or Not?An investigation by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper concluded that she had completed only 22 of the required 48 credit hours.
By: PWDGroup According to the Post-Gazettes story, it all started with a phone call from a newspaper reporter in October seeking to verify the academic credentials of Gov. Joe Manchins daughter Heather Bresch. Officials at the college have been accused of rewriting records last fall to document that Ms. Bresch had earned an executive master of business administration degree in 1998. An investigation by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette concluded that she had completed only 22 of the required 48 credit hours. Ms. Bresch, 38, works for Mylan Inc., the world’s third-largest generic drug company, which employs 2,000 people in Morgantown. The company’s chairman, Milan Puskar, is a major campaign contributor to Governor Manchin, and is the university’s largest donor, having given it $20 million in 2003. Are there more coincidental ties to this saga? Well, the university’s president, Mike Garrison, is a high school classmate of Ms. Bresch’s and a longtime friend of the Manchin family. He served as chief of staff to former WV Gov. Bob Wise, and was a consultant and a lobbyist for Mylan. Garrison also allegedly has business ties to members of the university board. This led many critics to charge that his university presidential 2006 appointment had been rigged in his favor from the beginning. Enough so that the Faculty Senate took the rare step last April of voting no confidence in him, even before he was appointed. Ms. Bresch has insisted that she earned her degree, and university officials have blamed a failure to transfer records for nearly half of her course work to the appropriate office for the situation, as documents were moved to electronic format from paper. But so far, the university and Ms. Bresch have not produced copies of her transcripts, receipts or other proof of her having paid for course work, or documents from the courses where grades seemed to have been entered years after “incompletes” How have the WVU alumni reacted to these scandalous claims? "Your handling of this situation tarnishes the name of West Virginia University and calls into question every degree it has awarded."..... "I for one plan to sue," said another. "My degree isn't worth squat anymore. When the full extent of this gets out the reputation of WVU will be completely in the toilet."..... "Records destroyed???? Right, and the dog ate my homework. Shame!" said one alumnus, referring to the university's explanation that Ms. Bresch was the victim of a massive records snafu...... "Good morning. I just wanted to ask how the cover-up is going," said another. "You're going to need a whole lot of paint to whitewash this one."..... The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has notified the university that it will file suit to force the school to turn over Ms. Bresch’s records. http://www.post- For More Information Contact: Sam Webber PWDGroup@gmail.com or 206-666- http://www.prlog.org/ Website: kanawhacountyblog.blogspot.com/ End
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