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November 03, 2009, 11:10 AM ET
Faculty Senate at Marshall U. to Investigate Top Grades Given to Politician's Daughter
Faculty leaders at Marshall University will investigate an incident in which the daughter of a government official received A's in independent-study courses without the approval of her professor, according to the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, a West Virginia newspaper. On Monday the executive committee of the university's Faculty Senate approved a petition from Laura Wyant, a professor of adult and technical education who said she had given the student incompletes in two of the courses. The student is the daughter of West Virginia's treasurer, John D. Perdue. In late September, Ms. Wyant accused a dean at the university of changing the grades.
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1. 11262324 - November 03, 2009 at 03:52 pm
Oh, surely not! Goodness gracious some folks can be stupid, not to say unethical to boot.
2. rmelton5 - November 03, 2009 at 04:34 pm
Didn't we hear about similar ethnical problems at another West Virginia institution earlier this year? Is it a particularly corrupt state?
3. willynilly - November 03, 2009 at 06:18 pm
It's much broader than West Virginia. It is actually another example of the George W. Bush syndrome. Everyone who has ever taught a college/university level course was able to recognize immediately that "W" was illiterate. He was not capable of legitmately passing even English 101 at any self-respecting post secondary institution in America. Marshall is simply following the path already cut be Yale.
4. princeton67 - November 03, 2009 at 07:15 pm
Gee, will this episode be the basis for a sequel to "We Are Marshall".
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