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Apr 22, 2008 1:32 pm US/Eastern

Report: WV Governor's Daughter Did Not Earn Degree

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (KDKA) ― An independent panel investigating the Master's Degree that West Virginia University awarded to Mylan Inc. Executive Heather Bresch, has unanimously ruled that Bresch did not earn the degree, according to our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The five-member panel was formed after the PG reported that Bresch had not completed all of the course work required to receive a master's of business administration degree.

The controversy was heightened by the fact that Bresch is the daughter of West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin and a childhood friend of WVU's president.

Over the past few weeks, Bresch has maintained that she earned the degree, telling the West Virginia Metro-News, "I hope they get to the right place – which is that I earned my degree back in 1998."

WVU's provost received the report yesterday. Provost Gerald Lang told the Associated Press that the university had to first review the report before it would go to the Faculty Senate and be made public.

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