Authorities over the weekend arrested a Georgia real estate agent accused of trying to coax a UNC football player to sign a sports contract, widening the number of people implicated in the long-running investigation. Authorities arrested Patrick… read more
A Georgia sports agent has been indicted on 13 counts of athlete agent inducement in connection to UNC’s long-running investigations into its football program. Charges against Terry Shawn Watson, who appeared today in Orange County District… read more
Jennifer Wiley Thompson ’09, the former tutor who became linked to UNC’s long-running investigations into its football program, has been charged with violating a state law governing contact with sports agents. An indictment was handed up… read more
Carrboro’s police chief indicated on Tuesday that investigators trying to piece together the circumstances surrounding the death last year of a UNC student had encountered difficulties obtaining new information, but criminal charges still could… read more
Nearly three years after former UNC football player Greg Little ’12 was suspended from the team as Carolina’s now-long-running investigations into its football program began, Little told investigators with N.C. Secretary of State’s office that… read more
A panel of national leaders in higher education and athletics has completed a UNC-commissioned report with 28 recommendations about the role of athletics in campus life. Many of the panel’s suggestions touch on finding a better balance between… read more
James B. Hunt Jr. ’64 (LLB), who set education as a top priority in four terms as North Carolina governor, will address the issue in a Sept. 26 speech at UNC. Hunt’s topic for the annual Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Lecture in Public… read more
UNC’s curriculum in peace, war and defense and the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations plans to host a roundtable discussion titled “Intervention in Syria?: Problems, Prospects and Contexts.” The event… read more
Provost James W. Dean Jr. and Athletics Director Bubba Cunningham are the leaders of a new group that is working toward assessing and enhancing the ways the University provides academic support to athletes. The Student-Athlete Academic Initiative… read more
Gender-neutral housing at Carolina — first denied by then-Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 and then supported by UNC trustees nine months later — has been struck from housing options on UNC System campuses by its Board of Governors. BOG Chair… read more