...I would argue that getting free grades does constitute an education in "african-American studies"
To anybody out there yelling "cheaters, punish them now!", think about it. If you attended a Univeristy or place of higher education you most likely cheated during your tenure there too. Any time you asked your friend for their answers for an assignment, or the answers to a test they took earlier in the day, borrowed a paper, used an unauthorized cheat sheet, or in today's age used your book for an online test when you weren't supposed to, you cheated and could have been kicked out of school.I never did any of that. Ever. Sounds to me like someone who wants to rationalize his own history of cheating.
As a UNC grad I am not surprised that the football team took easy courses, that takes place everywhere, but Academic fraud is embarressing.
To try to link this with the basketball team without any real proof is unacceptable.
Getting an A in a class that doesn’t exist? Typical.
I remember listing to the radio back in the 90’s. Some NC student had fallen below the required average and had to take a summer course to be eligible to play........
Golf Appreciation! Golf Appreciation? That’s a college course????? Bet he got an A in that one.
Hopefully when the education bubble pops, many such useless diploma mills will close, and much of college sports will be eliminated as well.
In a way, this is worse than Penn State since it created a competitive advantage.
Am I outraged by these allegations? Of course not. I save my outrage for what happened at Penn State.
See what we have here? We have evidence not only of grades being given to athletes for at least a decade — but also that UNC academic support staff steered athletes to those classes. This can’t be dismissed as the rogue actions of a man named Julius Nyang’oro, the embattled former head of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. If it was just him, well, that could be explained away to a certain extent. The school would be vulnerable to NCAA sanctions, but one man running amok? That’s not horrible.
What actually happened at North Carolina?
This is horrible.
Academic advisers steering athletes to Nyang’oro’s department. Athletes staying eligible by getting grades in some classes that didn’t even exist. Athletes who played football and men’s basketball.
Did any players on those NCAA championship teams attend bogus classes? According to the News & Observer, almost 67 percent of the students in those 54 classes were athletes. Most played football, but the newspaper reported that UNC records showed “basketball players had also enrolled. In two of the classes, the sole enrollee was a basketball player.”
but were not limited to — academic fraud. The NCAA poked around, found some stuff, but didn’t find this.
The NCAA didn’t find 54 bogus classes from 2007-11, or the unknown number of classes dating to 2001, filled mostly by UNC athletes. The NCAA hasn’t uttered a peep in recent days about these new allegations, either. Neither has the school. Not Roy Williams. Not anybody. The biggest response has been the creation of a website attacking the Raleigh reporter who is all over this story, including the Julius Peppers revelations. The website was created by a man named Carl Carey. Julius Peppers’ agent? A man named Carl Carey.
Crush them like they are trying to do to Penn State.
Alleged Julius Peppers transcript could lead to more North Carolina trouble
If an academic transcript recently uncovered belongs to former North Carolina two-sport standout Julius Peppers and is not a test transcript as the university says, the academic scandal that has plagued North Carolina could get even worse, according to the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer.
The newspaper published a 2001 transcript that the university said was fake, but a possible partial transcript that is allegedly Peppers was posted Sunday night on an N.C. State bulletin board and is nearly identical to the fake one.
The main issue is that two of the classesAFAM 070, an African-American Seminar classshow up on the transcript four times as no-show classes. Those classes54 similar cases were investigated by UNC and deemed aberrantpresumably just took place from 2007 to 2011. If those classes were being used to help athletes remain eligible for further back, more trouble could be on the way for North Carolina.
Nine of the 10 classes in which Peppers earned a B-plus, B or B-minus that could’ve helped ensure his eligibility came in the AFAM department where he was majoring, according to the possible transcript. Three were listed as independent study classes, another problem area cited in the school’s probe for a lack of supervision of work often a research paper performed by students.
The possible transcript lists a 1.824 GPA, beginning with classes during the summer of 1998 and finishing in the fall of 2001 during Peppers’ last year on the football field for the Tar Heels under first-year coach John Bunting. The link lacked grades for five classes in summer and fall 2001 terms.
http://philoofalexandria.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/151-lwezc-em-156.jpg
Julius Nyangoro, Chair of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is under investigation for teaching courses that never met.
The African and Afro-American Studies program has been at the core of questions surrounding academic fraud involving UNC football players.
An internal university probe released this month uncovered 54 classes within the department in which there was little or no indication of instruction. The review also found at least 10 cases of unauthorized grade changes involving students who did not complete their work.
Football and basketball players made up 39 percent of students in the questionable classes, but the university has said there was no evidence of a scheme to steer student athletes to easy classes to help maintain their eligibility.
Nyangoro, 57, a former department chairman, is retiring effective July 1. The professor, whose annual salary is $159,000, has not responded to The News & Observers requests for comment.
The universitys review covered 2007-11 and showed that Nyangoro was the instructor of record for 45 of the 54 suspect classes.
He received $12,000 for the 2011 summer school course, called Blacks in North Carolina, that should have involved classroom lectures, research papers and exams. But Nyangoro did not hold classes or require tests; students instead were assigned to do a final paper from their own research on one or two black leaders from the state.
University officials said last week that had they known the course was taught as an independent study, the professor would not have been paid.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/15/3239721/district-attorney-asks-sbi-to.html#storylink=cpy
Death penalty needed for the athletic programs. Worse than Penn State because athletes and academic departments were involved.
Since 2001? Don’t make me laugh. This scam was going on when I attended UMass in the 60s. Football heroes somehow never seemed to have to go to class or do homework, but they all got good grades as Phys Ed majors. They had their own Animal House, Kappa Sig, which threw a 24/7 party that often spilled out and ran amok into my dorm, neighboring Gorman House, when the lumbering drunken animals threw beer at us, smashed-out window screens, and roughed-up some smaller kids just for yuks. I have no reason to believe it ever stopped.
Good, another Affirmative Action scam gone public, and especially satisfying in such a Leftist haven as NC.
Now let’s have some real investigative reporting and see how that klutz, Obama, wound up at Harvard, and as head of the Harvard Law Review when he never wrote anything. Then we’ll really see the seedy side of Affirmative Action and its awful consequences for our country....far worse than a crooked sports program in NC.
NOTE TO SELF: Don’t consider UNC graduates for future employment opportunities. They obviously don’t take their program seriously.
Can anyone be surprised that this is happening at our colleges and universities—probably at all of them in some form or another? Can anyone place any confidence in the academic standards that are required and supposedly monitored by the NCAA? The whole thing is a facade. How about this for an example: a kid is unable to achieve the minimum GPA in high school and/or can’t make the minimum score required on the ACT/SAT. So he/she then go to a community college or a junior college for two years, miraculously become scholars, and are then admitted to a university—still without the minimum ACT/SAT score having been achieved. Does anyone believe that they suddenly began doing university type work? Dream on!
Now that they have been admitted into the university though very ill equipped to cope academically, the challenge to the university and the coaches is to keep them eligible no matter what. They must because there are extremely big bucks riding on the outcome of that challenge.
IMHO there are two simple ways to put a damper (not a complete fix though) on the insanity now dubbed college athletics. Every state legislature in this union should pass legislation that would prohibit any employee of the athletic departments in their respective states from earning more money than the president of said university or college. There is not a single college coach earning seven figures that would not do the job for six figures. Why? Because most all of them could not earn that much money in any other endeavor that they undertook.
Secondly, eliminate all recruiting—period. If a kid wants to play athletics, then he/she shops around for a university that has a need for their talent. With the technology available today, an athlete can expose untold numbers of coaches to their athletic ability with the click of a computer mouse. No need for the coaches to be running all over the country kissing 18 year old asses and making promises to parents that they know will never happen.
Another mystery is how the moms of kids coming out of broken homes and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods can seem to travel from one side of the country to the other to watch junior play his game. Also, junior many times seems to be able to afford an automobile that costs more than moms house. Go figure. And the NCAA seems to be immune to the obvious.