Deborah Crowder ’75, the office manager for UNC’s former department of African and Afro-American studies, managed for roughly 20 years what were called “paper classes” — the central element of Carolina’s long-running academic and… read more
The Orange County district attorney has dropped charges against Jennifer Wiley Thompson ’09, who was one of the first figures to surface in investigations of the relationship between academics and athletics at UNC that started four years… read more
UNC’s Department of Athletics spent $104,464 per varsity athlete in 2013-14, which puts Carolina in the lowest quartile among four comparison groups. Athletics generated $83 million in revenues for the year, more than most ACC schools but less… read more
An off-campus incident involving several members of the football team in early August has been investigated by UNC’s Office of Student Affairs and been referred to the campus’ student attorney general. The incident attracted widespread media… read more
On the same day the news media reported that UNC was investigating a hazing incident during preseason football practice, Coach Larry Fedora suspended four defensive backfield players from the first game of the season for violating unspecified team… read more
Multiple news sources have reported that UNC is investigating a hazing incident during preseason football practice involving a freshman nonscholarship player. Sources told the website Yahoo Sports that Jackson Boyer, listed in the media guide as… read more
The News & Observer has reported that critics of former UNC learning specialist Mary Willingham have found instances of possible plagiarism in the thesis she wrote for a master’s degree at UNC-Greensboro in 2009. Willingham has… read more
The University will begin offering scholarship athletes who have left Carolina with uncompleted degrees the chance to come back at any time and continue their studies under the financial terms of their scholarships. For a full-scholarship… read more
Orange County District Attorney James Woodall ’82 (AB, ’85 JD) has dropped the criminal charge against Julius Nyang’oro because of Nyang’oro’s cooperation with the current investigation into academic fraud at UNC, including in the… read more
Mary Willingham, the former learning specialist whose controversial research suggested a number of Carolina athletes were ill-prepared for academic success in college, claims in a lawsuit filed this week that she was subjected to a hostile work… read more