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The UNC scandal
THE BACKGROUND
An unusual B-plus grade on a football player's transcript has unearthed an academic fraud scandal involving athletics at UNC-Chapel Hill. That grade ultimately pointed to more than 200 lecture-style classes that never met from 1997 to 2011, as well as hundreds of suspect independent studies enrollments and unauthorized grade changes, all within the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. Athletes were heavily enrolled in many of these classes. The department chairman has since resigned and been forced into retirement, and reforms have been enacted to try to prevent future problems. Five investigations or reviews have been launched to try to figure out what happened, including one that is looking at whether crimes were committed.
WHO'S WHO
The key people in the UNC investigations
THE EVENTS
THE KEY STORIES
- 2011
- Austin's UNC transcript raises questions
- Sports agent taught class at UNC-CH
- 2012
- Report finds evidence of academic fraud in UNC department
- Board of Governors keeps hands off UNC scandal
- UNC football players flocked to suspect class
- Former UNC aide was close to athletics
- At UNC, no-show classes were mostly for athletes
- On the other UNC scandal, the NCAA is quiet
- UNC-CH's academic fraud case puts new scrutiny on professors
- UNC reluctant to dig deeper on scandal
- Peppers' transcript might point to broader academic issues at UNC
- Top UNC fundraiser resigns amid questions
- UNC's Kupec worked to establish job eventually given to Tami Hansbrough
- Chancellor Thorp flew with former UNC fundraisers
- UNC players needed academic help, records show
- Requirements questioned for naval class taken by UNC basketball players
- More plagiarism questions haunt UNC-CH
- UNC tolerated cheating, says insider Mary Willingham
- UNC got warning on suspect classes
- Martin report: Suspect UNC classes stretched back to 1997
- Meeting minutes don't confirm Martin report in UNC academic fraud scandal
DOCUMENTS
- Key emails within the academic support program for athletes
- UNC dental foundation's report on fundraiser Tami Hansbrough's expenses
- Athlete Julius Peppers' transcript
- Test transcript that turned out to belong to Peppers
- Faculty report on the academic scandal
- List of suspect classes in the academic fraud case
- Report on UNC's African studies program
- Report on independent studies at UNC
- Football player Marvin Austin's transcript
- The Martin report: Dec. 20, 2012
- Executive summary of the Martin report
- The addendum to the Martin Report
- Faculty athletic committee minutes from 2002
- Faculty athletic committee minutes from 2006-07
- The UNC Board of Governors' special panel report
- January 2013 letter from the accreditation agency SACS to Holden Thorp
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