UNC has made public the July 1 letter it received from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). That letter informed the university SACS was placing it probation for 12 months due to an academic fraud scandal in which more than 3,000 students received credit for bogus classes.
Chancellor Carol Folt said in early July the university would publish the letter after she and Provost Jim Dean had a chance to meet with UNC and SACS leadership. In a letter posted to the Carolina Commitment website Monday, Folt said she and Dean met with SACS Commission on Colleges President Belle Wheelan on Monday in Decatur, Ga.
The July 1 letter from SACS explains that a SACS board found the university in non-compliance with seven principles of accreditation. Those areas include “integrity,” “program content,” “control of intercollegiate athletics,” “academic support services,” “academic freedom,” “faculty role in governance” and “Title IV program responsibilities.”
In the letter, SACS also asks the university to provide evidence that its new reforms are helping it to comply in these seven areas. It requires UNC to provide another report before April 1, 2016 and announces a plan to send a committee to visit the campus.
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