The UNC response to the amended notice of allegations by the NCAA is, sadly, a missed opportunity to demonstrate leadership against the corrupt quagmire of Big Time intercollegiate sports. In announcing the release of its...
Read MoreUNC took dead aim right between the NC-double A’s. Carolina has said from the beginning of this academic-athletic mess that, on the other side of it, will be a model athletic program and university in how it deals with its...
Read MoreAfter waiting years, it had seemed like the NCAA investigation of UNC was nearly over, but the NCAA reset the clock with a new notice of allegation released Monday. “There seems to be a general feeling of relief around...
Read MoreUNC sent its first monitoring report to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools March 11. SACS informed the university last June that they would be maintaining their accreditation, but UNC would be placed under a one...
Read MoreIn the foulness of the ongoing athletic/academic scandal at UNC, former Governor Jim Martin has brought an honorable breath of fresh air. Many were critical of Martin’s December 2012 report of his investigation into “serious...
Read MoreFormer North Carolina Governor Jim Martin now says he misspoke about the UNC scandal when he told trustees: “This was not an athletic scandal. It was an academic scandal, which is worse; but an isolated one.” These revelations...
Read MoreUNC 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...
Read MoreDr. Jan Boxill, who has been one of the key figures in the academic scandal at UNC, resigned her position just before her appeal of her firing was to be heard by a faculty committee. Rick White, Associate Vice Chancellor for...
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Mary Willingham says her potential acts of plagiarism were inadvertent in her master’s thesis, according to the News and Observer.
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