Timeline of events leading up to Friday's West Virginia University Board of Governor's meeting, in which President Mike Garrison tendered his resignation, effective Sept. 1.

-- September 1996 -- Heather Bresch, daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, begins classes for an executive masterás of business administration degree.

-- December 1998 -- Bresch says she received her EMBA, although her name does not appear in the convocation program.

-- Sept. 1, 2007 -- Mike Garrison sworn in as 22nd president of West Virginia University.

-- Oct. 11, 2007 -- Following a promotion at Mylan, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette calls WVU to verify Bresch's master's degree and is told she does not have one. Bresch calls WVU President Mike Garrison's office with questions about what she contends is a records discrepancy.

-- Oct. 12, 2007 -- Business school Associate Dean Cyril Logar and Gerald Blakely, executive director of the Executive Master's of Business Administration program, are told to find records over the weekend pertaining to Bresch's degree.

-- Oct. 15, 2007 -- Provost Gerald Lang presides over a meeting in which business school dean Steve Sears decides to grant Bresch an EMBA. The meeting lasts less than an hour.

-- Dec. 21, 2007 -- The Post-Gazette reports that Bresch received only 22 of the 48 credits needed. WVU officials attribute the apparent lack of credits to a record-keeping error.

-- Jan. 2 -- WVU appoints two professors and Bruce Flack, a member of the Higher Education Policy Commission, to a panel that will investigate.

-- Jan. 15 -- Flack steps down after the WVU Faculty Senate calls on him to resign, citing his ties with the Manchin administration.

-- Jan. 28 -- Three educators from out-of-state schools are added to the panel.

-- April 8 -- Bresch speaks publicly for the first time, telling The Associated Press she earned her degree with work-experience credit through her job at Mylan.

-- April 21 -- The panel delivers its report to Lang.

-- April 23 -- The report is made public at a meeting of the WVU Board of Governors. It concludes that Bresch did not earn an MBA, and the decision to award it to her was "seriously flawed and reflected poor judgment."

-- April 28 -- Lang announces he will resign as provost but continue teaching. Sears follows with his resignation as B&E dean on April 29. He also plans to continue teaching.

-- May 5 -- WVU Faculty Senate, by a 77-19 count, votes no confidence in Garrison's ability to lead WVU.

-- May 13 -- Full gathering of WVU Faculty Assembly, by a 565-39 count, votes no confidence in Garrison's ability to lead WVU.

-- May 30 -- Garrison delivers report to Board of Governors, with findings that additional students did not complete all requirements for their Executive MBA degrees. Board of Governors issues statement saying Garrison did nothing to influence the decision to award Bresch a degree.

-- June 6 -- Garrison tenders his resignation to the Board of Governors, effective Sept. 1.

Source: Associated Press