The University is bringing in a former governor, a national management consulting firm and the president of a prestigious national higher education association to help address different aspects of issues related to an internal investigation that… read more
What appears to be the UNC academic record of football star Julius Peppers ’02 surfaced on a UNC website late last week and was publicized by The News & Observer of Raleigh as part of its coverage of the football and academic scandals… read more
A state Superior Court judge has ruled that former football coach Butch Davis must make public the records of business calls made on his personal cell phone. Judge Howard Manning Jr. ’65, who previously had said only lawyers representing a… read more
A new report of a special subcommittee of UNC’s Faculty Executive Committee makes it clear there are deep concerns in the faculty about how thoroughly athletes — especially those in the revenue-producing sports of basketball and football —… read more
The University paid outside lawyers $467,406 during a 17-month period of the NCAA investigation into the football program. At the start of the probe in June 2010, UNC augmented the work of its own legal staff with Rick Evrard, an attorney with… read more
Last summer, 18 UNC football players and one former player made up the entire enrollment of an African and Afro-American studies class that, according to a report by The News & Observer of Raleigh, was opened for enrollment on the day… read more
Concurrent with its probe of the department of African and Afro-American studies, the University did a general study of policies and practices in independent studies courses across the College of Arts and Sciences. It found no misconduct in the… read more
The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into a report of academic fraud in UNC’s department of African and Afro-American studies following a request from the district attorney for Orange and Chatham counties. James Woodall ’82 (’85 JD)… read more
Red flags raised during the UNC football program investigation led to a probe of the University’s department of African and Afro-American studies that has turned up what appears to be a multi-faceted web of academic fraud in which professors were… read more
The National Collegiate Athletic Association said Monday that UNC was responsible for multiple rules violations in its football program — including academic fraud, impermissible agent benefits, ineligible participation and a failure to monitor… read more