WVU President Resigns, Finally
Posted on June 6th, 2008
West Virginia University President Mike Garrison resigned to after weeks of pressure of the Heather Bresch affair, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Garrison's resignation is not effective until September 1st, so he has about 12 weeks to aid the university in it's transition to new leadership.
The Post-gazette describes garrison's resignation this way:
It capped six months of turmoil sparked by the revelation that top WVU administrators falsified records to retroactively grant a master's of business administration degree to Mr. Manchin's daughter, Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch.
The tangled web of relationships involved in this story made suspicion of corruption almost impossible to avoid. Bresch and Garrison are long time friends. According to the Post-Gazette story, Garrison reported to Bresch when he worked as a lobbyist for Mylan Inc., the drug company that Bresch now leads. And Milan Puskar, the chairman of Mylan Inc., is WVU's biggest donor.
Garrison had been asked by faculty bodies at least twice to resign in the past few weeks. The resignation comes just days after the university's board of governors voiced support fro Garrisonn.
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