Faculty headed to NCAA meeting
The Faculty Athletics Committee is becoming increasingly involved in giving input to ACC and NCAA conference proposals and discussed upcoming proposals for the NCAA convention later this week.
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The Faculty Athletics Committee is becoming increasingly involved in giving input to ACC and NCAA conference proposals and discussed upcoming proposals for the NCAA convention later this week.
Former athletic learning specialist Mary Willingham has always said she filed her lawsuit against UNC for one reason — to get her job back.
In a 223-page response on Monday, the University defended its integrity to its accrediting agency.
The two people — former UNC athletic counselors Jaimie Lee and Beth Bridger — at the center of the now-infamous presentation given to coaches about the paper classes, have left the UNC system.
After Kenneth Wainstein identified him as the faculty member with the clearest opportunity to learn about the fake paper classes, Tim McMillan filed his resignation from the University, effective Dec. 31.
Jan Boxill, the former faculty chairwoman and a lecturer in the philosophy department, requested a hearing before the University Faculty Hearings Committee after the University told her of its intent to terminate her.
On Dec. 30 I spent eight hours at UNC’s General Administration building for the court-ordered mediation between the University and 10 news organizations, a list that includes The Daily Tar Heel.
The University confirmed Wednesday that employees Jeanette "Jan" Boxill, Tim McMillan, Jaimie Lee and Beth Bridger were terminated for their involvement in the decades-long academic scandal designed to keep student-athletes eligible to play that was chronicled by Kenneth Wainstein's investigative report.
At the last Faculty Council meeting of 2014, aftershocks from the Wainstein report finally started to blend in with the rest of campus life.
A superior court judge denied the University's request to toss out its lawsuit with 10 media organizations, instead ordering the two sides to go to mediation over the University's refusal to release the names of employees facing disciplinary action for their involvement in the academic fraud outlined in the Wainstein report.
Despite the negative press UNC received from the Wainstein report, there is little evidence to show it has affected donations to the University, which will announce the receipt of the largest individual donation in its history during a press conference today.
Thomas Ross, the president of the University of North Carolina system, opens up the discussion regarding the Wainstein report that was released to the public Tuesday afternoon. The report details how the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at UNC allowed for its athletes to receive high grades with minimal effort for nearly twenty years.
The involvement of the North Carolina men’s basketball team in the athletic-academic scandal at UNC had rarely before come under scrutiny when Rashad McCants voiced his concerns in June.
In October, the grim details of the academic-athletic scandal that has plagued the University since 2010 were revealed by the Wainstein report.
Since the release of the Wainstein report in October, Student Body President Andrew Powell has watched student-athletes and the athletic department squirm under the national microscope.
The University’s accrediting body asked Chancellor Carol Folt to defend UNC’s compliance with its policies, marking the first step of the agency’s review after a report revealed nearly two decades of academic fraud.
Faculty members have been in an identity crisis since the release of the Wainstein Report a month ago.
The University development office’s banner year for donations is the latest casualty from the findings in the Wainstein report.