UNC has graduated Black male student-athletes at the 10th lowest rate among 65 major universities across the nation in recent years, according to a recent study.
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The Faculty Athletics Committee met Tuesday afternoon to discuss predicted GPAs for special talent students and slavery-dependent Kenan family wealth, and here is what happened.
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Staff writer Ramishah Maruf sat in on the Faculty Athletic Committee meeting where they discussed creating a more academic environment for student athletes, adjusting player schedules and increasing breaks for student athletes.
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Over the past six years, Bubba Cunningham has overseen nine national titles and 10 runner-up finishes as athletic director. With a contract renewed by Chancellor Folt on Nov. 17, he has six more years at UNC to add to the trophy case.
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The North Carolina Tar Heels’ women’s golf team finished tied for No. 11(+36) out of 14 teams this past weekend in the Battle at the Beach in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico in their last tournament before the spring season kicks off in February.
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The Carolina men's basketball team can confidently say they ran the NCAA, but members of the Carolina Jump Rope Club took their routine to the world stage — traveling first to Florida and then to Hong Kong and walking away champions.
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Mike Bunting serves as UNC's Assistant Athletic Director for Facility Planning and Management, which means that he's currently very busy. UNC athletic facilities are currently undergoing a massive series of renovations this year, shuffling around and/or impacting track and field, soccer, football, field hockey and lacrosse. Summer editor Rachel Jones spoke with Bunting about the extent of the renovations and what they'll mean for the future.
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After a faculty call for academic freedom brought more attention to the cancellation of history professor Jay Smith’s big-time college sports class, emails from 2016 show the class drew controversy from the beginning.
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New Hope Elementary students met their UNC student-athlete pen pals for the first time at Tuesday’s baseball game against Liberty University.
Read More »Deborah Crowder, who was named in the second Amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA as administering fake classes for the African and Afro-American Studies Department, has released an affidavit stating that the accusations against her are untrue.
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House Bill 2 might cost the state the ability to host all NCAA Championship events for the next six years, according to a letter from the North Carolina Sports Association to the N.C. General Assembly.
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At the end of the fall 2016 semester, the history department made the decision to remove History 383 — a class that explores the history of college athletics and the rights of college athletes — from the course listings for the upcoming spring semester.
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Tune into any TV broadcast of a UNC home football or basketball game, and you might recognize the curly-haired, oft-painted superfan spearheading the screaming student section.
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The Faculty Athletics Committee met Tuesday to discuss student-athlete exit interviews and surveys, pending NCAA legislation and student-athlete academic advising.
Read More »The Faculty Athletics Committee met Tuesday to review student-athlete summer programs, surveys and a study by the NCAA.
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What happened? The Student Athlete-Academic Process Review Group, a successor to a working group tasked with changing academic policies concerning student-athletes after the academic-athletic scandal, met to discuss the sixth and seventh processes out of 21 the group is set to review.
Read More »A recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board will allow collective bargaining rights for graduate students at private universities. This comes one year after the NLRB effectively said student-athletes at private universities cannot unionize.
Read More »UNC administrators are making an effort to better include student-athletes in the conversation around the academic-athletic scandal.
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Tim Davis is a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law who is an expert in sports law. University Editor Acy Jackson talked with Davis about his opinions on UNC’s recent response to the Amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA.
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Two UNC-Greensboro concussion specialists won a $400,000 grant last month from the NCAA and the U.S. Department of Defense to design a web-based tool geared toward increasing concussion reporting among student athletes.
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