Administrators at West Virginia University violated procedures and displayed poor judgment in their "seriously flawed" response to an inquiry about a high-profile academic transcript, according to a report issued last week by an independent panel. The harshly worded report found that when the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" raised questions last October about apparent incomplete course work for an M.B.A. claimed by Heather M. Bresch, the daughter of West Virginia's governor, university officials moved quickly to retroactively grant a degree she had not earned. The panel's report did not call for disciplinary action against any university administrator, including Michael S. Garrison, the university's president. The panel released a list of recommendations, including calls for the university to review its academic-record policies, to base graduation checks on official university documents, and to fully describe the requirements and distinctive features of the executive M.B.A. program.