The Board of Trustees for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges is meeting this week with the University of North Carolina on the docket.

The board is reviewing UNC’s accreditation status after the university spent the last academic year on probation following the release of the Wainstein report into the paper class scandal at Carolina.

SACS has the option of continuing probation for a second year, restoring the university to regular status or removing the university’s accreditation entirely, although that seems to be an unlikely move.

UNC has continued to stress that the reforms that have been put in place following the scandal allow the university to better monitor various departments for irregularities. Officials from SACS visited the UNC campus earlier this year to take a look at those reforms for themselves. Chancellor Carol Folt said at a subsequent Board of Trustees meeting that she was pleased with the steps that had been taken by the university.

“We continue to do everything that we possibly can to make [UNC] a strong place,” Folt said. “I think part of the SACS visit was a good opportunity for us to continue to look at what we’re doing, assess it [and] prepare ourselves for questions.

“That gives you a chance to do self reflection.”

An announcement regarding UNC’s accreditation status is expected Thursday afternoon at the conclusion of the SACS board meeting.

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