SACS Not to Reopen UNC Case
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 2:02 pm
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NOVEMBER 14, 2017 5:22 PM
The president of the commission that accredits UNC-Chapel Hill said in a letter released Tuesday that it will not look further into statements the university made to the NCAA’s infractions committee regarding the legitimacy of classes in the long-running academic scandal.
In a News & Observer story last week, Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, said the association would look into UNC’s characterization of the classes as stated in the infractions committee’s decision. Three passages in the decision referenced UNC officials’ statements that the classes at the heart of the scandal counted.
The university told the accreditor in 2013 that students who had yet to graduate could not use any confirmed “paper” classes toward graduation unless they could produce the work they did or take a challenge exam. Failing that, students would have to take another course, which the university would provide free of charge
BY DAN KANE
dkane@newsobserver.com
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ORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORY
NOVEMBER 14, 2017 5:22 PM
The president of the commission that accredits UNC-Chapel Hill said in a letter released Tuesday that it will not look further into statements the university made to the NCAA’s infractions committee regarding the legitimacy of classes in the long-running academic scandal.
In a News & Observer story last week, Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, said the association would look into UNC’s characterization of the classes as stated in the infractions committee’s decision. Three passages in the decision referenced UNC officials’ statements that the classes at the heart of the scandal counted.
The university told the accreditor in 2013 that students who had yet to graduate could not use any confirmed “paper” classes toward graduation unless they could produce the work they did or take a challenge exam. Failing that, students would have to take another course, which the university would provide free of charge