The University of North Carolina has released a redacted version of the 112 pieces of factual information supporting the amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA.
UNC is facing five Level 1 infractions, the most serious the NCAA can bring, including Lack of Institutional Control.
Former faculty chair and director of the Parr Center for Ethics Dr. Jan Boxill is once again routinely mentioned in the 240-plus page document.
Boxill is shown e-mailing back and forth with student-athletes helping with grammatical or structure issues within a paper to providing portions of a paper for a course.
While there may not be new developments in the batch of e-mails released on Thursday, it reiterates the depth of the long-running scandal.
An e-mail from Debby Crowder in the AFAM department dated September 20, 2005, said “we are getting pressure from on-high to reduce the numbers of independent study type courses in the [department],” when responding to a request from Wayne Walden – the former academic advisor for the men’s basketball team – for a course recommendation for a student who was “getting a little overwhelmed” with his semester.
Crowder then sent an e-mail in July 2009 to the AFAM listserv saying that, “I do not plan to continue to add fictitious courses on MWF to make our percentages comply with the university’s regulations.”
Amid all of the allegations, a common theme from when the amended NOA was released is the lack of attention paid to football and men’s basketball. The aforementioned e-mail from Walden is the only tie to the men’s basketball program.
UNC has 90 days from the date it received the amended NOA, April 25, to respond to the NCAA.
UNC Chancellor Carol Folt addressed the amended Notice of Allegations at the WCHL Community Forum the day after the university received the information.
You can see the full packet of factual information here.
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