Accrediting Body Places UNC on Probation
Source: Inside Higher Ed
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will not lose accreditation over the academic fraud that occurred there, but it will face one year of probation, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges announced Thursday. In October, the university released a detailed report about widespread and long-lasting academic fraud at the university. For 20 years, some employees at the university knowingly steered about 1,500 athletes toward no-show courses that never met and were not taught by any faculty members, and in which the only work required was a single research paper that received a high grade no matter the content.
In January, UNC submitted a 200-page report to the accrediting body detailing the steps it has taken since the scandal came to light. The university will have to submit a similar update after the probationary period.
"The commissions decision is the next step -- an expected consequence -- in Carolinas tireless efforts to ensure integrity in everything we do and that the past irregularities are not allowed to recur," Carol Folt, UNC's chancellor, said in a statement.
Read more: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/06/12/accrediting-body-places-unc-probation
KansDem
(28,498 posts)That's an understatement!
And this isn't Western Carolina State College (not that it would be OK there, either), but Chapel ****ing Hill, which tries to style itself as a world-class research institution.
paleotn
(18,015 posts)consistently one of the top public universities in the country. But that doesn't mean they're immune from the cancer of big time college athletics. With that kind of money thrown around, no one is immune. UNC was just a bit more blatant and less stealthy with their "keep 'em eligible" program. Hell, even Stanford has it's easy class list. The fact is, academic fraud is rampant among those near the top of the money sports pyramid and among those who'd like to be near the top. The whole system from the NCAA on down is pathetic and corrupt.
mnhtnbb
(31,420 posts)it brings in--which is just one more reminder of how money can so easily corrupt...whether in politics,
education, business...you name it.
More than once my husband and I have been glad our younger son--who graduated Phi Beta Kappa with
a double major from UNC - Chapel Hill in 2012 was able to get in to grad school before this outcome.
No, he never took any of those classes. No, he wasn't an athlete, but the school which issued his
degree is still tainted. And that's going to be really tough for a lot of kids who were never near
any of this mess.