Heather Bresch's name appears on a list of students prepared by a professor who taught one of the six classes added to the Mylan Inc. executive's West Virginia University transcript. But Ms. Bresch's name did not appear on a separate, official university record of students who completed the class and received grades.

Former WVU Professor Monika Renard said the name of Ms. Bresch, known as Heather Kirby at the time, is on a list she developed for her own use at the beginning of the fall 1998 class on negotiation strategy. Her list was based on information provided by the university, but Ms. Renard said she does not know how or when the university developed the list.

Ms. Renard, who now teaches at Florida Gulf Coast University, said that Ms. Bresch's name being on the list does not mean that Ms. Bresch attended, completed or paid for the course, which ran from Nov. 1 to Dec. 12, 1998.

She initially told the Post-Gazette Ms. Bresch's name was not on her list, information contained in a story posted earlier today on the Post-Gazette Web site.

Ms. Bresch says she earned the degree in December 1998.

Ms. Renard's two-credit course was one of six classes added to Ms. Bresch's official transcript, which previously showed that the daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin did not earn an M.B.A. degree from the university. The six classes, plus two courses previously marked "incomplete" that were changed to letter grades, accounted for 22 credits in the 48-credit program.

Ms. Renard said she was "surprised and dismayed" that WVU officials did not contact her before changing the school's records to reflect that Ms. Bresch took the class.

The unofficial list of students is the only document she has found in her records since being called recently about providing information to the panel that's been asked to investigate the university's Oct. 15 decision to retroactively award the degree to Ms. Bresch nine years after she left the program.

First Published: January 18, 2008, 1:00 a.m.