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
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