More on the Manchin daughter degree from WVU

The report on Heather Bresch's eMBA is out. You can read about it here.

Other news organizations are covering this, especially those whose readers are more closely and personally aligned with WVU.

I like this lead paragraph on a story by Metro News:

If they had it to do all over again WVU Provost Gerald Lang and College of Business and Economics Dean Stephen Sears say they would take Heather Bresch's word and grant her an executive MBA degree.

Some people never learn, and they cannot admit to making mistakes, even big ones that cannot be denied.

I'm getting kind of busy right now, so I don't have a lot of time to compose thoughts. I did notice that WVU President Mike Garrison comes out cleaner than he should have in this report. I don't see how this could have happened without his knowledge. Other news organizations have filed FOIA requests for his phone records, so we will soon see how much chatter went back and forth between him and Joe Manchin and Milan Puskar.

It's not over. No matter how WVU officials try to spin it, they gave preferential treatment and awarded a degree to a well-connected person who provided no proof she had earned it. Talk about a diploma mill.

The governor's office issued a statement today. It read, in full:

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Gov. Joe Manchin today released the following statement about the report from the panel examining the E-MBA program and Heather Bresch’s degree at West Virginia University.

“Gayle and I support our daughter and are very proud of the professional reputation she has built throughout her career. She is one of the brightest, most compassionate and honorable people that I know.

“All I can hope for as a parent is that WVU’s leaders will correct whatever problems that led to this situation so that no other student will have to go through this kind of ordeal in the future.”

I would have liked to have seen a paragraph along these lines:

"Mike Garrison will be in my office at 8 a.m. tomorrow. He will leave in tears."