While West Virginia University braces for the next stage in the scandal over an unearned degree given to the governor's daughter, the school is increasingly in the national spotlight. That's not the kind of attention the school may want, however.

Jonathan Knight, a specialist in professional ethics for the American Association of University Professors, says he can't think of a similar case happening anywhere in the country.

The school is reeling from a report issued last week that said administrators improperly granted a master's degree to Mylan Incorporated executive Heather Bresch, who is Governor Manchin's daughter.

Since then, two officials have resigned their administrative posts and donors have canceled plans to contribute to WVU, so far costing the university more than $2 million.

Knight says it's important for WVU to immediately re-establish public trust in its degree granting. He says the best way to do that is to make sure the faculty, and only the faculty, has the power to confer degrees.