UNC has submitted a response to its regional accrediting body, following concerns raised during the independent investigation into academic irregularities at the university.

SACSCOC requested information from UNC, in November of last year, regarding compliance with various accreditation standards. And the university submitted their report detailing how they are dealing with the issues raised in the Wainstein Report on January 12, 2015.

Dr. Belle Wheelan, President of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, says they are now looking over the report.

“We’re in the process of reviewing it, to make sure that we don’t need any additional information,” she says. “And we will forward it to the board for its review at its June meeting.”

Dr. Wheelan says a decision will be made public as that board meeting wraps up.

“They’ll make some kind of decision,” she says. “Whether it’s to defer it; whether it’s to ask for additional information; whether it’s to put them on warning or probation; or drop them from membership. But there will be some action taken on it.”

That board meeting will be held June 8 through 11.

UNC is a founding member of SACSCOC and completed a review with the organization in June of last year, before new information came to light during the independent investigation.

You can view the 200-plus page report submitted by UNC here.

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