The University has found and reported to the NCAA two new possible violations of the organization’s rules governing collegiate athletics. One, involving women’s basketball, was found while poring through “5 or 6 million pages” of documents… read more
The University’s accreditation agency says that while UNC has made progress toward compliance with seven of the agency’s standards, it has yet to provide sufficient evidence that changes and initiatives arising from the long-running academic… read more
The University has received its expected letter from its accreditation agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, detailing SACS’ decision in mid-June to place the University on probation for one year. read more
The University has been placed on probation for one year by its accreditation agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, after SACS’ second review of UNC’s academics-athletics case and UNC’s action in response to it. read more
The NCAA has charged the University with lack of institutional control in its alleged failure to monitor its former department of African-American studies and its academic support center for athletes and asserts that UNC failed to rein in both when… read more
The University and the NCAA have asked a federal court to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of two former Carolina athletes who claim that UNC did not deliver them the education it promised and who assert that the NCAA failed to uphold… read more
Mary Willingham, whose claims that some athletes arrived at Carolina unprepared for academics helped focus investigations into the athletics-academics scandal, did not win her attempt to get her job back. She did receive an as-yet unspecified… read more
Jan Boxill, a 27-year veteran of the faculty who served a term as its chair, has resigned from the University, apparently cutting short her appeal of her firing last fall. read more
Mary Willingham, whose claims that some athletes arrived at Carolina unprepared for academics helped focus investigations into the athletics-academics scandal, did not win her attempt to get her job back. She did receive an as-yet unspecified… read more
The suit against UNC and the NCAA draws on information about the paper classes scheme operated at UNC for 18 years, ending in 2011, in the former department of African and Afro-American studies and from case examples of the NCAA’s interaction with… read more