RadioShack Backs CEO Despite Discrepancies

Directors of RadioShack Corp. said they stood behind the retailer’s chief executive despite a published report that he didn’t earn two college degrees listed on his resume.

A biography of David J. Edmondson given to reporters and posted on the company’s website said that he earned degrees in theology and psychology from Pacific Coast Baptist College in California.

But the registrar of the school, which moved to Oklahoma in 1998 and renamed itself Heartland Baptist Bible College, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that records showed that Edmondson completed only two semesters and that the school never offered degrees in psychology.

Through a spokeswoman, Edmondson declined to comment. He told the Star-Telegram that he earned a degree in theology after completing a three-year program through correspondence. He said that the college must have lost his paperwork and that he never misled RadioShack.