HUNTINGTON -- A Marshall University professor Thursday called on the Faculty Senate to impeach its chairwoman because of what he called a lack of leadership.

Dallas Brozik said chairwoman Cam Brammer didn't react quickly enough to a grade change controversy involving West Virginia Treasurer John Perdue's daughter when it first surfaced in September. At the end of the Faculty Senate meeting Thursday afternoon, Brozik produced a petition signed by 10 faculty members, enough to require the Faculty Senate to form an ad hoc committee to start an impeachment investigation, he said. Senators still would have the ultimate vote.

Brozik also charged that Brammer assigned the wrong committee to investigate.

"I'm frustrated at the matter and solution that the executive committee be the one to investigate," he said. "That's wrong. It doesn't belong in the executive committee. It needs an ad hoc committee.

"It's a leadership problem," Brozik continued.

When the meeting started, Brammer said two committees were looking into the situation involving the awarding of grades to Perdue's daughter, Emily, by Rosalyn Templeton, executive dean of the College of Education and Human Services. Templeton took over as instructor of record from professor Laura Wyant, who has said she didn't consent to the change.

In August, the university claims a clerical error was made, and Wyant remained instructor of record when the grade change form was submitted. According to university officials, the student earned the grades and the mistake was fixed, although the grades were entered in early September, while Templeton wasn't officially changed to the instructor of record until later that month.

According to an internal investigation conducted by Marshall Provost Gayle Ormiston, the student finished the work. Templeton submitted a grade change form to change the grades of incompletes given the student by Wyant to As. But Templeton failed to fill out part of the form, and it was returned to Wyant.

Wyant and Ormiston have been subpoened by the FBI to appear before a federal grand jury on Dec. 1.

That process, Brammer said, is what the academic policy committee is looking into, and a possible procedural change could prevent such a mistake from happening again.

Brammer also said that the executive committee is investigating, describing it as "around the situation and grades awarded."

After the meeting was concluded, Brammer left quickly without commenting, but she ended the meeting by saying she wasn't sure how to proceed. She then tabled the item until the Dec. 10 Faculty Senate meeting.

Many of the Faculty Senate members declined to comment on the call for an impeachment.

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