Inside Higher Ed: Degree Scandal at West Virginia Fells Provost
The provost of West Virginia University told deans Sunday that he would resign because of his role in the improper awarding of a master’s degree to the governor’s daughter, saying in a letter to the campus that he regretted that “my one action in ratifying a Dean’s decision in a single situation has had a negative impact on the institution.”
The resignation of Gerald Lang, provost and vice president for academic affairs, was reported first by the Associated Press and is expected to be announced on the campus this morning. Lang and the university’s business dean, R. Stephen Sears, came in for the harshest criticism in the report of an independent panel charged with investigating the university’s decision to hastily award a degree to Heather Bresch without clear or sufficient evidence that she had earned it.
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