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
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in its Nov. 13 letter to the University said the Wainstein report “makes it clear that there was a network of individuals within the academic and athletic community that knew of and referred… read more
The University has retained one of the world’s largest law firms — New York-based Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom — to represent it in what a University-issued statement referred to as “ongoing matters.” David Parker ’80,… read more
The University has taken action to fire longtime faculty member Jan Boxill for her involvement in a paper classes scheme that has been at the center of a long-running saga involving UNC’s former department of African and Afro-American… read more
Ten media organizations have sued the University demanding the names of UNC personnel who were either fired or disciplined following the release of the Wainstein report on Oct. 22. Chancellor Carol L. Folt said on the day of the report’s… read more
The University has received an invoice for $3.1 million from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, the firm that employs Kenneth Wainstein and others who spent eight months investigating academic and athletic irregularities at UNC. The invoice… read more
The University’s accreditation agency says the Wainstein report on academics and athletics irregularities has raised questions about UNC’s compliance with its principles of accreditation. The agency also asserts that UNC may have withheld some… read more
Michael McAdoo ’12, who was removed from the UNC football program in the early stages of the University’s athletics-academics case, is suing Carolina for not providing him with the education it promised. McAdoo’s complaint is centered on… read more