Boxill Resignation Comes Days Before Appeal Hearing

Dr. 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 Communications and Public Affairs at UNC, says that process came to a halt with her resignation.

“That hearing was scheduled to take place,” he says. “However, Dr. Boxill chose to resign prior to that hearing starting. Once that letter of resignation was received and accepted, then that whole process just stopped.”

Boxill’s resignation was effective February 28.

White says they did not cut a deal for the resignation.

“That was no settlement per se,” he says. “Dr. Boxill is covered under the state of North Carolina retirement system. However, we’re treating this now simply as a resignation and not a termination, because she did resign prior to that termination process being complete.”

White says as far as the university is concerned, the resignation of Boxill is a “closed book.”

Boxill did not return a request for comment from WCHL.

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