MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- More than 60 students and faculty members at West Virginia University last night voiced their frustrations -- or expressed their pride -- during a forum intended to take the pulse of a campus caught up in controversy.

Students, faculty and alumni have called for WVU President Michael S. Garrison to resign after an investigative panel found there was no evidence that Heather Bresch, a Mylan Inc. executive, had earned a master's of business degree in 1998 as she had claimed.

Provost Gerald Lang and business school dean R. Stephen Sears announced their resignations this week.

The forum, held in the student union, was sponsored by The Daily Anthenaeum, the WVU student newspaper, and attracted passionate calls for the resignation of Mr. Garrison, as well as calls for calm.

Nick Seitz, 20, a junior studying criminology, said he trusted the panel that investigated the matter and expected administrators, including Mr. Garrison, to now act responsibly.

"The WVU community has every right to be upset over this ordeal. I am as well," he said. "But hasty decisions led to this in the first place."

But Patrick Isennock, 20, a senior in marketing, said the problem wasn't that administrators made a hasty decision. It was that the hasty decision was wrong.

"A lot of what we talk about in marketing is branding," Mr. Isennock said. "And, really, this whole thing is ruining the brand of this university."

Karen Cappeluti, however, disagreed.

"WVU is not something that one person can ruin, and it's not something that one scandal can ruin," said Ms. Cappeluti, 26, a junior in multidisciplinary studies. "I don't believe that this is going to affect any of us significantly. ... Your character and your actions are what will define you. As long as your name isn't Heather Bresch, you're in the clear."

Matt Delligatti, 21, a senior in political science, also is a member of the Fairmont City Council and said he knows Mr. Garrison as a man of integrity who could not have been involved in the awarding of a degree that wasn't earned.

But Emily Renzelli, 21, a senior in political science, demanded an apology and said it was troubling to hear "the mixed message" from university officials who preach integrity and honesty, yet act otherwise.

Joyce Royse, 63, a parent of four current or graduated WVU students, said she had approached the university about completing work toward her own master's degree and was told how difficult it would be. She was angered, she said, by the double standard of that response, as well as the fact that the WVU administrators who resigned are still teaching.

"I don't want a cheater teaching my children," she said. "Where is the leadership? Garrison accepted their resignations, but they're going to be allowed to teach?"

WVU administrator Bill Case, executive officer for communications, attended on behalf of Mr. Garrison, who could not be there, he said, because of a previous commitment. Mr. Case promised to convey to the president the sentiments expressed at the forum.