Academics and Athletics News

UNC, in partnership with Duke University, has been awarded up to $50 million from the Food and Drug Administration to establish a center that will work with FDA scientists to conduct research that will better inform and support the agency’s… read more

The School of Education recently received a $2.27 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund a project to increase the number of school counseling graduates working in rural elementary and middle schools across the state. Helping… read more

Nearly three dozen Carolina undergraduate and graduate students have received awards from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for their research in STEM-related fields, including chemistry, geography, neuroscience… read more

The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions could not find any violations of its rules regarding academics in UNC’s long-running fraudulent classes case, the athletics governing body announced Friday. read more

This fall, the University will practice something it has gotten really good at: waiting for the NCAA. read more

The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions has set an Aug. 16 hearing date for what it intends to be a resolution of UNC’s long-running fraudulent classes case. The athletics governing body has requested that both of the University’s head basketball… read more

The University has reiterated its contention that a set of no-attendance, paper-only classes were not designed for athletes and were not available to athletes on a preferred basis and that the staff of the academic support center for athletes did… read more

The University and the NCAA are headed toward an August hearing on the sanctioning body’s allegations that UNC violated “issues that go to the core of the collegiate model” when it failed to recognize and stop a system of paper-only classes… read more

As the University prepares to respond to the NCAA’s third notice of allegations in the ongoing negotiations over athletics and academics issues, Deborah Crowder ’75 has acknowledged that it was she who reviewed and graded paper-only classes in… read more