The University has made it clear to the National Collegiate Athletic Association that the NCAA has overstepped its jurisdiction in its allegations against UNC over the handling of a long-running athletics-academics fraud case. read more
The University has turned to a faculty member from UNC’s School of Social Work to fill a new position of director of ethics education and policy management. read more
The University has settled with the family of former football player Jackson Boyer — said to have suffered a concussion in an incident during pre-season camp in 2014 — according to media reports. read more
Chancellor Carol L. Folt has announced that the Southern Association of College and Schools has lifted UNC’s yearlong probationary status related to the academics-athletics fraud case that first came to light five years ago. read more
The two best teams in the tournament met in the final, and by any assessment it was a classic. Both can’t win, but this was about as close as you can get. read more
The NCAA’s amended Notice of Allegations in UNC’s long-running athletic-academic fraud case reiterates the serious nature of what it calls the University’s failure to maintain institutional control and failure to monitor its former department… read more
A spokesperson confirmed that an amended Notice of Allegations from the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the long-running athletics-academics case has been received. The spokesperson added that UNC would need time to study the document… read more
The University is creating the position of chief integrity and policy officer, a new senior administrator position reporting directly to the chancellor. read more
The University has fired two more people in the wake of the athletics-academic scandal, and has prohibited a former senior administrator from ever holding an administrative position at UNC again. It cleared three other staff members whose actions… read more
The News & Observer and The Daily Tar Heel are seeking records from the firm that performed the Wainstein investigation totaling some 5 million pages — all of which have to be reviewed to protect privacy rights. read more