R. Stephen Sears, dean of West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics, has resigned, according to a university-issued news release, making him the second official at the university to quit today. Also stepping down is West Virginia’s longtime provost, Gerald E. Lang.

Both officials were cited often in a report, released last week by an independent panel, that criticized university administrators for retroactively awarding an unearned executive M.B.A. to Heather M. Bresch, the state governor’s daughter and a top executive at a pharmaceutical company whose chairman is a major benefactor to the university.

The trouble may not be over in Morgantown. The Daily Athenaeum, the university’s student newspaper, reported on Friday that a faculty member may propose a no-confidence measure concerning Michael S. Garrison, the university’s president, while other faculty critics are calling for Mr. Garrison’s ouster, according to the Associated Press.

Mr. Lang, the university’s provost for 13 years, told The Chronicle in January that the degree controversy pained him as a “steward of the university.” He also defended Mr. Garrison’s actions. “It’s unfortunate that this particular case has been linked to the president,” he said. “It is a case that really resides in the College of Business and Economics. The president was not involved in any of the decision making on this.” —Paul Fain