West Virginia University’s Faculty Senate made it very clear that President Mike Garrison had to step down. The senate reckons that this is the best thing to do for the school’s reputation.

The motion demands that Garrison resign, or that the university's Board of Governors requires his resignation. This is very unlikely to happen because Garrison has the support of the board and of Gov. Joe Manchin, who appointed most of its members.

Manchin’s support comes from the fact that he is the father of a girl who got her degree although she didn’t earn it. It has been proven that the university had no basis for awarding a master of business administration degree to Ms. Bresch.

Garrison has its own agenda.

“We've got a lot of work left to do at the university,” he told The Associated Press Monday night, hours after the Faculty Senate declared no confidence with a 77-19 vote and demanded he resign. “I intend to keep moving forward.”

He also said that he understood the indignation of the two dozen senators who spoke against him but he intended to remain committed to his task.

“If you look at the results, when we’ve worked with faculty we’ve had great results,” he said, as 480 students enrolled over this time last year and 160 acceptance letters from students have arrived in the last week, while the controversy was highly discussed.

“All of our indicators point to strength and forward movement. It’s not exactly fair to just point to one thing without talking about all those other things,” said Garrison, reports The Associated Press.

Although he has the support of some highly placed persons, the University Assembly plans to hold a special meeting on May 14, as it refuses to leave things the way they currently are.