Professor Julius Nyang’oro, an internationally
respected scholar and longtime chairman of USC's
African and Afro-American studies department.
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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Maybe not so much now.
“African and Afro-American studies”
I hear the job market is starved for people with this kind of education...........................insert eye roll here.
Professor Julius Nyang’oro, an internationally
respected scholar and longtime chairman of USC's
African and Afro-American studies department.
If someone did an honest study of African Americans who played Division 1 sports fifteen years after playing and compared them to their peers who never attended college, it would be interesting to see if the experience actually benefited the athletes in some manner. Its already known that the schools get rich.
And, where is Nifong, the disbarred prosecutor in the Duke rapeless care. Odd names in that neck of the woods.
Not on did the pay huge out of State tuition but both think their kids were indoctrinated at UNC
Sad, I know you must read the Koran before graduating.
The graduates who are really prized, though, are the ones with a minor in Sub-Saharan Homoerotic Literature and Folk Art. Get that degree and you can write your own ticket. :=)
My daughter went in UNC CH as as conservative Christian and came out a flaming liberal. She is now a professional photographer and going back to conservative. She pays the self employment tax and is flabergasted.
“How surprising that the African and Afro-American studies department offered phony classes. In general, American “higher education” is too often about bread and circuses.”
In my experience many black college students wouldn’t have been admitted if they were white; the fact that they spend at least a year in “remedial classes” (high school classes required for whites’ admission, for which they receive no credit) attests to that. If we’re going to pretend they are qualified, why not pretend they graduated as well? The “token C” is the minority counterpart to the “gentleman’s C”.
BS....
My daughter graduated from UNC in 2006 and NEVER had to read the Koran....
I went to UNC for both undergrad (Education 1980) and grad school (JD 1988). I was one of the conservative minority. I was pretty quiet in undergrad, but I did find time to laugh at some of the demonstrations on campus by crazy libs. In law school there was a group (libs would say “gang”) that carried the ball for the conservative side. It made for great classroom debate. There were only a couple of conservative professors, a source of refuge for us.
I was a high school teacher after undergrad. Education classes were horrible, in my view, and usually loaded with athletes. They attended reasonably often, and ANY effort they made in class was highly praised. I suspect, but can’t say for sure, that A’s were generously given to the athletes. The rest of us were judged by a higher standard.
In my true major UNC was very rigorous, and I believe it remains that way.
The only college, to my knowledge, that DOESN’T try to indoctrinate our kids into liberalism and /or communism is Hillsboro College....
Football players are all that’s mentioned in the article but the basketball team is in this up to their necks.
UNC is in full CYA mode.
This scam likely involves $$millions in fraudulent use of tax-exempt federal/state education tax dollars--- a money-laundry and tax evasion scam.
L/E needs to examine Nyang’oros' assorted bank accounts and tax-exempt status. One of the biggest scams is writing a check to another tax-exempt----the way they easily launder tax-exempt money to themselves .....and commit tax evasion.
<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer of of tax=exempt funds. Tax exempt monies may be paying for personal and private expenses, campaign expenses, credit cards, real estate subsidies and vehicle purchases.
<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that govt money deposited into accounts was being used for legitimate purposes. The scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of tax-exempt funds for insiders own use.
NOTE WELL Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering and other financial crimes. “The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.
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L/E needs to examine Nyang’oros' bank accounts used to pay for his various activities.
<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer of of tax-exempt education fund to pay for personal and private expenses, credit cards, real estate subsidies, campaign donations, travel, and vehicle purchases.
<><> To cover their tracks, fake/falsified/forged invoices might be created to show that money deposited into education accounts was being used for legitimate, allowable purposes.
The scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for personal use.
<><> L/E is directed to get ahold of: (1) copies of checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including e-mail, contracts, loan agreements, and, (8) any other books or records. L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub- brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.
<><> L/E should scrutinize bank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.
<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC other accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures.
Tax fraud can also be facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from foundation accounts into personal accounts. A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts from luxury outlets for wives and mistresses.
Taxpayers should demand the Bank Secrecy Act be used to prosecute fraud pronto. And study those tax returns with a fine-tooth comb....especially entries for "interest income."
I earned my degree from the UNiversity of Tennessee and it was the same there as at UNC, NCSU, Boston College, (insert name of any major university here)...
Just think, one of the “students” could become President of the United States. Sound familiar?
AFAM = African/Afro-American
I would guess that any who got picked for NFL did VERY well, and the ones who did not get picked did poorly.
If I was an employer, I would look at them and decide (probably accurately) that they learned nothing but football.
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