The University has received a verbal notice that the NCAA is reopening its 2011 examination of academic irregularities and their relationship to athletics, according to a statement released Monday by Athletics Director Bubba Cunningham. This move… read more
Orange County District Attorney James Woodall ’82 (AB, ’85 JD) is considering dropping the criminal charge against Julius Nyang’oro because of Nyang’oro’s cooperation with the current investigation into academic fraud at UNC, including in… read more
Kenneth Wainstein, the special investigator hired by the University to look into issues surrounding academic fraud and its relationship to athletics, told the UNC System Board of Governors on June 20 that he hoped his work could be finished by this… read more
Chancellor Carol L. Folt emailed the campus community on Tuesday, noting that she has received questions about recent news reports about claims by a former UNC basketball player, Rashad McCants, and subsequent reports based on an interview with… read more
Basketball coach Roy Williams ’72 has rebutted most of what former player Rashad McCants said about him in an interview with ESPN last week. In a separate interview with ESPN’s Jay Bilas on Saturday in Chapel Hill — held while some… read more
Julius Nyang’oro, the man at the center of the controversy over fraudulent academics at UNC, is cooperating in the latest investigation into the matter. Independent investigator Kenneth Wainstein told members of the news media on June 20 that… read more
Rashad McCants, one of the stars of Carolina’s 2005 national basketball championship team, says that during his three years at UNC, he was steered to African and Afro-American studies classes that never met — and that that maneuver might… read more
A Wake County judge on Monday denied The News & Observer access to a record the newspaper had sought as part of its coverage of Carolina’s nearly four-year-long academic fraud case. The N&O sued the University in… read more
Mary Willingham, who has attracted national attention since January after asserting that many Carolina athletes were substandard readers with little chance for academic success in college, says she plans to resign from the University at the end… read more
Three outside experts retained by the University have found no evidence to support claims made by UNC learning specialist Mary Willingham that some athletes’ reading abilities have not squared with the requirements of college work. Carolina’s… read more