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To: ConservingFreedom

Geezzzzzz .......... What a fraud. I just read this on her Wiki bio ......


Controversy[edit]

Main article: Heather Bresch M.B.A. controversy

Bresch, the daughter of West Virginia U.S. Senator and former West Virginia governor Joe Manchin, earned her undergraduate degree from West Virginia University.[2] She was an MBA student at West Virginia University until 1998. In 2007, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Bresch claimed to have an MBA degree from West Virginia University, but that when asked the university disputed that. Soon after, the university awarded her an MBA despite her having completed only 26 of the required 48 credits. Following release of a report commissioned by the university (and written by a panel of faculty members from WVU and other universities), the university announced in April 2008 that it would rescind Bresch’s degree,[13] and WVU’s provost announced his resignation from that administrative post (while remaining on the faculty).[14] On June 6, 2008, WVU President Michael Garrison resigned in the wake of the scandal.[15]

The university initially stated that it had awarded the degree after correcting a “records error.”[16] Bresch claimed in April 2008 that she had arranged with the WVU Business School to have her “work experience” substitute for the outstanding coursework[17] - a claim reportedly denied by the then-head of the MBA program and rejected by the panel.[13]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette characterized the panel’s report [18] as criticizing the university administration for having made “a ‘seriously flawed’ decision fraught with favoritism” in awarding Bresch the degree; Michael Garrison, WVU President at the time, was reported to be “a family friend and former business associate of Bresch”[13] and a former consultant and lobbyist for Mylan.[19]

According to the New York Times, Bresch said in a statement that she “continues to believe she did what was required to earn her degree.”[20] After WVU announced in February 2009 that it would not rescind other degrees where students’ records contained irregularities, Bresch wrote to the university demanding an explanation for what differentiated her situation from the others.[21] The panel investigating the situation had found that “the argument that other WVU students were similarly situated to Ms. Bresch...is not the case” and that some other students’ records contained only “a handful of relatively minor administrative problems”.[18]:p.11

In the 2008 election campaign, Manchin challenger Russ Weeks attempted to exploit the Bresch affair by offering “University of Mojo” diplomas, implying that Manchin was implicated in the attempt to grant his daughter an unearned degree. The Manchin campaign maintained that the governor had not been involved in the affair.[22]


4 posted on 07/16/2014 10:27:15 AM PDT by boycott
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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


12 posted on 07/16/2014 11:52:10 AM PDT by kcvl
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Be that as it may, she's the CEO of Mylan, and you are not.

Unless you own shares in Mylan, you don't have standing to object.

Sounds like she's fixing to make a move that will benefit Mylan's shareholders. That's what matters!

22 posted on 07/17/2014 1:24:42 AM PDT by cynwoody
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