June 20, 2008

Questions Follow a Political President's Fall

By PAUL FAIN

For the last six months, West Virginia University has been shaken by one of the most intense scandals in higher education. During the first week of June, the university's president, Michael S. Garrison, decided to step down to try to end the crisis.

His decision did not come easily, Mr. Garrison said in an interview with The Chronicle on June 6, hours after he announced that he would leave his post on September 1. After being battle-hardened by years of experience in state politics,

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