In an unbelievable turn of events, the NCAA said there were no violations at North Carolina in concerns to academic fraud.
If you haven’t heard, there were allegedly 60 some fraudulent classes, most concerning students in African and Afro-American Studies.
This excerpt is from a [URL=”http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/1216701.html”]press release from UNC:[/URL]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]With the NCAA enforcement staff, our internal working group of University Counsel Leslie Strohm, Senior Associate Dean Jonathan Hartlyn, and former faculty athletics representative Jack Evans interviewed faculty and staff in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, academic support counselors, and student-athletes who had taken multiple courses in the department.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Based on the joint review, UNC and the NCAA staff concluded there were no violations of current NCAA rules or student-athlete eligibility issues related to courses in African and Afro-American Studies.
As a result, the NCAA did not add any allegations or include this issue during the University’s appearance in October 2011 before the Committee on Infractions.[/FONT][/COLOR]
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College of Arts and Sciences Dean Karen Gil subsequently commissioned a review of courses in African and Afro-American Studies. In May, the University publicly issued that report and provided it to the NCAA.[/FONT][/COLOR]
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On Aug. 23, 2012, University Counsel Leslie Strohm and Senior Associate Dean Jonathan Hartlyn provided an update to the enforcement staff. The NCAA staff reaffirmed to University officials that no NCAA rules appeared to have been broken.[/FONT][/COLOR]
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This is absolutely amazing to think there was nothing illegal going on at North Carolina.
Can we seriously believe that the NCAA isn’t biased towards one school and not towards another?
