An Ohio university says a Florida House candidate's claims that she graduated from the school are false.
Melissa Howard, who is running for the Republican nomination in Florida's 73rd district, has been accused of falsifying her degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Howard recently posted a Facebook photo of herself and her mother with a diploma to clear her name.
However, Claire Webster, director of university news and communications for MU, told WTSP that Melissa Marie Fox – Howard’s name before she married – does not have a degree from the college, though she was enrolled at the school.
Webster pointed out other discrepancies with the diploma seen in the photo, including:
Ohio college: Despite claims, Florida House candidate Melissa Howard didn't graduate
- The picture of the diploma does not appear to be an accurate Miami University diploma.
- MU has no record of the degree pictured in the photo.
- The marketing degree shown in the photo was not what Fox studied while she was enrolled at MU.
- The pictured diploma contains the signatures of James C. Garland, President, and Robert C. Johnson, Dean. While Garland was president of MU at the time, Johnson was dean of the Graduate School, not the dean of either the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration nor the School of Education and Allied Professions.
BTW, she's conservative to the core