8.31.12 | Academics and Athletics, University News
The UNC System Board of Governors’ investigation of academic fraud at Carolina was out in the open this week in a public session in which UNC officials promised a list of reforms to guard against any repeat of what happened in its department of…
The University released a statement Friday saying the NCAA had affirmed that UNC did not break any of the athletics governing body’s rules in the academic fraud incidents involving the department of African and Afro-American studies. The… read more
The oldest GAA-sponsored student group, Order of the Bell Tower, has won a national award for its overall leadership and activities fostering and promoting student involvement in campus traditions. The group received a 2012 Outstanding… read more
UNC rose to ninth from 16th among leading private and public research universities for the level of federal funding — $545.99 million — devoted to research and development in all fields during fiscal 2010. Overall, Carolina ranked 15th for… read more
Bruce Carney, the University’s provost for the past three years, will leave South Building and return to the astronomy faculty at the end of June 2013. Carney, who also holds the position of executive vice chancellor, put off a scheduled… read more
29,507 applied for admission 7,855, or 26.6 percent, were admitted 3,928, or 50 percent, are expected to enroll 56.8 percent female, 41.4 percent male 17.7 percent of those enrolling are the first in… read more
Former Carolina football star Julius Peppers ’02 has donated $250,000 to the GAA’s Light on the Hill Society Scholarship fund that supports African-American students. Peppers already had donated $100,000 to the fund in 2009. The… read more
UNC’s Renaissance Computing Institute has been tapped as the technical lead in a $4.5 million collaborative water project by the National Science Foundation. The project, which involves a team that spans eight U.S. universities, aims to develop a… read more
The unauthorized publication of the academic transcript of Julius Peppers ’02 on a UNC website resulted from a mistake by an internal computing staff person, according to the vice chancellor for Information Technology Services. Larry Conrad said… read more
On Thursday, the University announced that it is bringing in a former governor, a national management consulting firm and the president of a prestigious national higher education association to review various aspects of issues related to academic… read more