Work just beginning for panel investigating WVU degree: ; Professor says no plans or schedule have been made yet

The three-person panel that will look into the controversy over amaster's degree awarded to Gov. Joe Manchin's daughter has yet tomeet in any official capacity.

On Wednesday, West Virginia University Provost Gerald Lang namedtwo professors and an executive with the state's higher educationsystem to the committee.

The men appointed to conduct the review are Roy Nutter, acomputer science and electrical engineering professor who is also amember of WVU's Faculty Senate; Michael Lastinger, a Frenchprofessor and former Faculty Senate chairman who sat on theuniversity's Board of Governors; and Bruce Flack, vice chancellorfor academic affairs for the West Virginia Higher …