Virginia Lawyers Weekly

A legislative committee wants Virginia Commonwealth University’s Board of Visitors to see if it can revoke a degree it granted Richmond’s former police chief that he didn’t earn.

House Appropriations Committee members on Monday asked VCU to ask its legal advisers whether the board has the power to deny wrongly awarded degrees.

The request came after a General Assembly investigative panel presented its review of how VCU awarded Rodney Monroe a bachelor’s degree in 2007, despite his only earning six of 30 required credit hours there. VCU has allowed Monroe to keep the degree, saying university policy only allows revocation in instances of academic misconduct.

Monroe is police chief in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, N.C., where a bachelor’s degree is required for the job.

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