From the anonymous report [0] linked here: > Beyond the irregular manner in which she was hired, the most unusual thing about Maryanne Reed as a Provost is tha

From the anonymous report [0] linked here: > Beyond the irregular manner in which she was hired, the most unusual thing about Maryanne Reed as a Provost is that she does not hold a doctorate in her field (or any other). The Provost is responsible for overseeing graduate education, assessment of Faculty research, and the administration of tenure, which is normally based on research and limited to faculty with doctorates (Reed herself was a rare exception to this pattern as a professor of journalism). A Provost with no experience in any of these areas is highly unusual. As far as I'm aware, a Provost, or any academic executive, at a four-year research university without a PhD is super duper shady. Imagine a Distinguished Fellow at Microsoft or somewhere like that whose previous job was a rank consultant at Deloitte. It's like that, afaik. While Maryanne Reed, who holds an MS in Journalism, spent a lot of time at WVU (30 years as an assistant professor, which is usually the highest teaching position you can get without a PhD), her progression is still very unusual in academia. Outside that, it appears as if WVU is being robbed from the inside. I feel bad for the students. [0] https://archive.ph/uhQi1 https://archive.ph/uhQi1