On October 11, 2007 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contacted West Virginia University to confirm academic credentials claimed by Bresch, including an EMBA degree. Research done by the Post Gazette indicated that Bresch’s course work ceased with 22 out of the 48-credit-hour program remaining to be completed. The WVU Registrar told the newspaper that Bresch had earned an undergraduate degree, but did not finish her graduate degree. However, On October 15, 2007, a university spokeswoman announced that WVU officials had verified that Ms. Bresch had “completed all the requirements for an executive masters of business administration degree,” but did not receive her diploma because she failed to pay a $50 graduation fee. She attributed the misunderstanding to the business school’s failure to transfer records from nearly half of her course work.
On October 22, 2007, R. Stephen Sears, the Milan Puskar Dean of WVU’s business school, sent a letter to WVU’s admissions and records office retroactively granting Bresch an EMBA. Six classes were added to her record with letter grades, and two classes with “Incomplete” grades were given letter grades.
The report’s panel found that high-ranking university administrators “cherry-picked” information and that grades were “simply pulled from thin air” to grant Bresch the degree nearly 10 years after she was supposed to graduate. The panel concluded administrators lacked documentation to prove Bresch’s claims, relied too heavily on verbal assertions and caved to political pressure. The report did not find that the university president directly interfered, but it concluded the presence of his chief of staff in the decision-making meeting created “palpable” pressure.
Chairman of the West Virginia University’s Health Sciences Center neurosurgery department organized a faculty letter in support. Some faculty members felt pressured to sign the letter, which had 23 signatures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Bresch_M.B.A._controversy
The more things change the more they remain the same. I remember when the Logan WV school district couldn’t locate 250,000 thousand. Then they issued a release and said it was a purchase of pencils.
How does this woman have even a shred of integrity left? How can anyone in her company have any respect for her for lying about such?
The only way a woman like her could get into such a position is if her father is a senator.
Seems her father would have advised her better than this. I find it scary that people can lie like this and apparently not be bothered by it.