:: MIR :: Response
After the independent panel's report became public, donors, alumni, faculty, students, staff,
and citizens of West Virginia demanded accountability and fairness, calling on top
administrators, including President Mike Garrison, to resign.
Faculty asked: How can we uphold standards of academic honesty
when WVU's highest officials flout them? How can we help students
develop resilience, integrity, and character if we do not demonstrate
these qualities ourselves?
The WVU community was never so divided, so afraid, and so deeply troubled.
On May 5, 2008, the WVU Faculty Senate Voted overwhelmingly for
President Garrison's resignation, a call echoed by the Daily
Athenaeum, the student newspaper.
On June 6, PResident Garrison announced that his presidency would end September 1, 2008.
 | About MIR: Mountaineers for Integrity and Responsibility (MIR) is a grassroots movement of faculty, staff, alumni, students, and friends of WVU joining to restore the University's reputation for academic integrity in the wake of the Bresch scandal. |