The University of North Carolina has announced the completion of personnel reviews from the fallout of the Wainstein Report.

UNC has terminated the employment of two individuals, permanently restricted one faculty member from future administrative responsibilities and cleared three other employees of any wrongdoing following employment reviews after the Wainstein Report.

The university announced the decisions through the Carolina Commitment website on Thursday.

Provost Jim Dean and vice chancellor for workforce strategy, equity and engagement Felicia Washington led the review process, which was aimed at determining if the employees named “knowingly participated in or facilitated the irregular courses” detailed by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein as part of his investigation into the academic-athletic scandal at Carolina.

The university says the reviews considered “whether the employees knowingly helped create the circumstances that allowed the irregular courses to be conducted, knowingly directed students to the classes, or were in a position to know about and stop the wrongdoing and failed to do so.”

The employees fired by UNC on Thursday include Brent Blanton, associate director of the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes, and Travis Gore, administrative assistant in the department of African, African-American and Diaspora Studies.

Bobbi Owen, professor of dramatic art and former senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, was “permanently restricted from having any future programmatic or administrative leadership responsibilities” at UNC.

Corey Holliday, associate director of athletics, Alphonse Mutima, lecturer in the department of African, African-America and Diaspora Studies, and Andre’ Williams, associate director of development for the Arts and Sciences Foundation, who is also the former director of football student-athlete development, were all cleared of any wrongdoing by Carolina.

Three employees were previously let go by the university as a result of their involvement in the scandal.

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