Posted on 01/01/2014 5:54:28 AM PST by reaganaut1
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — In the summer of 2011, 19 undergraduates at the University of North Carolina signed up for a lecture course called AFAM 280: Blacks in North Carolina. The professor was Julius Nyang’oro, an internationally respected scholar and longtime chairman of the African and Afro-American studies department.
It is doubtful the students learned much about blacks, North Carolina or anything else, though they received grades for papers they supposedly turned in and Mr. Nyang’oro, the instructor, was paid $12,000. University and law-enforcement officials say AFAM 280 never met. One of dozens of courses in the department that officials say were taught incompletely or not at all, AFAM 280 is the focus of a criminal indictment against Mr. Nyang’oro that was issued last month.
Eighteen of the 19 students enrolled in the class were members of the North Carolina football team (the other was a former member), reportedly steered there by academic advisers who saw their roles as helping athletes maintain high enough grades to remain eligible to play.
Handed up by an Orange County, N.C., grand jury, the indictment charged Nyang’oro with “unlawfully, willfully and feloniously” accepting payment “with the intent to cheat and defraud” the university in connection with the AFAM course — a virtually unheard-of legal accusation against a professor.
The indictment, critics say, covers just a small piece of one of the biggest cases of academic fraud in North Carolina history. That it has taken place at Chapel Hill, known for its rigorous academic standards as well as an athletic program revered across the country, has only made it more shocking.
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besides, a good deal of whether you pass or not is your knowledge on the floors...your confidence, your basic knowledge, etc....
cheating makes me very angry though...
Wouldn’t that be correct?
There’s an entire cover story from Universities about not paying athletes ‘because of the value of the scholarships/education they are receiving’. Most of us already were aware that this cover is usually a crock... but this NYT piece could be pulling the thread that unravels the entire quilt.
While there the one student who actually paid attention and knew the subject came up after class and objected to a tight deadline before a break.
The student did not have time to write the papers for multiple students in the class (mostly athletes). He was paid $50 from each athlete to write their papers!
John was flabbergasted and discussed with a member of the administration. Seems that the administration was aware of a “few irregularities” but thought it was a good way for the smarter students to pay for college, since they has few scholarships!
John quit at the end of the year and was released from his multiyear contract with no penalty. As a pastor he was not going to pass anyone he caught cheating - but he suspects that every student he had was passed anyway.
“As we used to say in Raleigh:
NC State = Education
UNC = Vacation”
We didn’t say anything at all about state in Chapel Hill. We even wrote them out of the fight song while I was in school there.
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