CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Marshall University professor is asking the Faculty Senate to investigate why grades for State Treasurer John Perdue's daughter were changed without her permission.

Provost Gayle Ormiston said Friday that Emily Perdue's grades were changed from incompletes to "A's'' only after she completed the coursework.

"She earned the grades,'' Ormiston said Friday.

Perdue needed to pass the courses in business education management to gain admittance to Marshall's business school.

Last spring, professor Laura Wyant gave Perdue two incompletes for the independent study courses, but Ormiston said Perdue completed the coursework over the summer under College of Education and Human Services Dean Rosalyn Templeton.

Ormiston blamed a clerical error for the mix-up. He said Wyant mistakenly received two grade change requests forms for Perdue that should have gone to Templeton after she was assigned as Perdue's instructor of record.

Wyant wrote a Sept. 11 letter to Marshall registrar Roberta Ferguson after receiving those forms, and told Ferguson she could not approve the grade changes because she had "not seen any work completed by Ms. Perdue for either course.''

Her letter prompted Ormiston's review, which he completed Thursday. Once Ormiston's findings were released, Wyant sent an e-mail to Faculty Senate President Camilla Brammer, asking for an investigation.

Calls to Wyant, Templeton and Brammer was not immediately returned Friday.

A spokesman for John Perdue said the treasurer was withholding comment about the matter until it is fully resolved.

"He doesn't want to muddy the water or look like he's manipulating anything,'' spokesman Nelson Sorah said. "He wants to make sure he doesn't interfere.''

Perdue's situation comes two years after West Virginia University became embroiled in a master's degree scandal involving Gov. Joe Manchin's daughter. Former WVU president Mike Garrison resigned and former provost Gerald Lang gave up his administrative post after investigators found that Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch was wrongly awarded a retroactive degree.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Marshall University professor is asking the Faculty Senate to investigate why grades for State Treasurer John Perdue's daughter were changed without her permission.

Provost Gayle Ormiston said Friday that Emily Perdue's grades were changed from incompletes to "A's'' only after she completed the coursework.

"She earned the grades,'' Ormiston said Friday.

Perdue needed to pass the courses in business education management to gain admittance to Marshall's business school.

Last spring, professor Laura Wyant gave Perdue two incompletes for the independent study courses, but Ormiston said Perdue completed the coursework over the summer under College of Education and Human Services Dean Rosalyn Templeton.

Ormiston blamed a clerical error for the mix-up. He said Wyant mistakenly received two grade change requests forms for Perdue that should have gone to Templeton after she was assigned as Perdue's instructor of record.

Wyant wrote a Sept. 11 letter to Marshall registrar Roberta Ferguson after receiving those forms, and told Ferguson she could not approve the grade changes because she had "not seen any work completed by Ms. Perdue for either course.''

Her letter prompted Ormiston's review, which he completed Thursday. Once Ormiston's findings were released, Wyant sent an e-mail to Faculty Senate President Camilla Brammer, asking for an investigation.

Calls to Wyant, Templeton and Brammer was not immediately returned Friday.

A spokesman for John Perdue said the treasurer was withholding comment about the matter until it is fully resolved.

"He doesn't want to muddy the water or look like he's manipulating anything,'' spokesman Nelson Sorah said. "He wants to make sure he doesn't interfere.''

Perdue's situation comes two years after West Virginia University became embroiled in a master's degree scandal involving Gov. Joe Manchin's daughter. Former WVU president Mike Garrison resigned and former provost Gerald Lang gave up his administrative post after investigators found that Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch was wrongly awarded a retroactive degree.