Professor Steve Kite says faculty members should consider the independent panel report in the Bresch case as their primary source. Kite says that report doesn't say Garrison orchestrated things to make sure Bresch received her executive MBA degree retroactively.

"I don't see where you can really find President Garrison particularly culpable on this," Kite said Monday on MetroNews Talkline. "Yes, it happened under his watch and he has to take responsibility for it happening under his watch."

Garrison has said he takes that responsibility and plans to implement the independent panel's recommendations.

Kite says Garrison removed himself from the Bresch situation and now some are criticizing him for not having a more active role in what happened.

"There was a conflict of interest there," Kite said. "He saw it and he wiped his hands of this."

Professor Kite says WVU Provost Gerald Lang's decision to resign is the right decision. He says Lang still believes his original decision to grant Bresch her degree retroactively. Kite says every faculty member he's spoken with believes Lang and College of Business and Economics Dean Stephen Sears did the wrong thing.

Kite says, in this case, Lang should have consulted the faculty more. "Putting more weight on faculty input could have in this case kept us from being where we are right now," he said.

Professor Kite does say the long career of Provost Lang won't soon be forgotten at WVU.

"His whole body of work at WVU may have as much impact on the face of this campus as anyone in the history of the school," Kite said.