Just saw a trailer that UNC was hit with 4 level 1 violations plus lack of institutional control and that their academic fraud covered an 18 year period. All the violations are classified as "severe" violations.
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NCAA hits University of North Carolina with five violations in wake of academic scandal
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: Thursday, June 4, 2015, 1:49 PM
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An aerial view of the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill.
The NCAA has charged North Carolina with five violations connected to the school’s long-running academic fraud scandal, including a lack of institutional control for poor oversight of an academic department popular with athletes.
The school released a 59-page notice of allegations on Thursday that it received from the NCAA, which uses the document to specify violations uncovered during an investigation.
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The charges include providing improper benefits in the form of counselors making “special arrangements” with staffers in the formerly named African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department to offer courses or obtain assignments for athletes, as well as a counselor working with the women’s basketball program providing improper help on research papers.
All five charges are considered Level I violations, described by the NCAA as a “severe breach of conduct.”
Chancellor Carol Folt and athletic director Bubba Cunningham issued a joint statement, saying the school takes allegations “about past conduct very seriously” and noted the school has implemented more than 70 reforms since the end of academic irregularities in the AFAM department ended in 2011. UNC has to file a response to the NCAA within 90 days of receiving the notice.
“Although we may identify some instances in the NCAA’s notice where we agree and others where we do not, we are committed to continue pursuing a fair and just outcome for Carolina,” the statement said.
North Carolina Responds to NCAA Allegations
Campus Insiders
The five charges listed in the NCAA’s notice are:
— There was a lack of institutional control in failing to “sufficiently monitor” the AFAM department as well as the academic support department for athletes, noting athletes received “preferential access” to the department’s irregular courses.
— Academic counselors leveraged relationships from the fall semester in 2002 to the summer session of 2011 with AFAM department faculty and staff to provide athletes with benefits “not generally available to the student body.” Those benefits included suggesting assignments to the department, turning in papers for athletes and recommending grades.
— Academic counselor Jan Boxill, who worked with women’s basketball, provided improper assistance by sometimes adding content to athletes’ papers. Also, in at least one case, she recommended a grade for submitted work.
— Former AFAM office administrator Deborah Crowder, one of two department staffers most directly linked to irregular courses in the department, didn’t cooperate with NCAA investigators.
— Former AFAM department chairman Julius Nyang’oro, the other staffer most directly linked to the department’s irregular courses, also declined to cooperate with the NCAA probe.
The NCAA reopened an investigation into academic misconduct last summer connected to the AFAM department. The focus was courses often treated as independent studies that required no class time and one or two research papers, with many operating that way despite being scheduled as lecture classes.
An eight-month investigation conducted by former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein stated that Crowder — not a faculty member — typically handed out assignments then high grades after only a scan of the work. Wainstein’s October report found problems running from 1993 to 2011 and affecting more than 3,100 students, with athletes accounting for roughly half the enrollments in the problem courses.
Both Crowder and Nyang’oro cooperated with Wainstein’s probe.
The arrival of the NCAA notice will ultimately lead to a hearing for the school with the infractions committee, which would then issue a ruling and any potential sanctions within a time frame of weeks to months.
The school announced May 22 it had received the notice of allegations, but it didn’t release the document publicly until Thursday to redact information to comply with privacy laws.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: Thursday, June 4, 2015, 1:49 PM
An aerial view of the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill.
The NCAA has charged North Carolina with five violations connected to the school’s long-running academic fraud scandal, including a lack of institutional control for poor oversight of an academic department popular with athletes.
The school released a 59-page notice of allegations on Thursday that it received from the NCAA, which uses the document to specify violations uncovered during an investigation.
RELATED: UNC TUTOR REVEALS FOOTBALL PLAYER'S 10-SENTENCE 'A-' PAPER
The charges include providing improper benefits in the form of counselors making “special arrangements” with staffers in the formerly named African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department to offer courses or obtain assignments for athletes, as well as a counselor working with the women’s basketball program providing improper help on research papers.
All five charges are considered Level I violations, described by the NCAA as a “severe breach of conduct.”
Chancellor Carol Folt and athletic director Bubba Cunningham issued a joint statement, saying the school takes allegations “about past conduct very seriously” and noted the school has implemented more than 70 reforms since the end of academic irregularities in the AFAM department ended in 2011. UNC has to file a response to the NCAA within 90 days of receiving the notice.
“Although we may identify some instances in the NCAA’s notice where we agree and others where we do not, we are committed to continue pursuing a fair and just outcome for Carolina,” the statement said.
North Carolina Responds to NCAA Allegations
Campus Insiders
The five charges listed in the NCAA’s notice are:
— There was a lack of institutional control in failing to “sufficiently monitor” the AFAM department as well as the academic support department for athletes, noting athletes received “preferential access” to the department’s irregular courses.
— Academic counselors leveraged relationships from the fall semester in 2002 to the summer session of 2011 with AFAM department faculty and staff to provide athletes with benefits “not generally available to the student body.” Those benefits included suggesting assignments to the department, turning in papers for athletes and recommending grades.
— Academic counselor Jan Boxill, who worked with women’s basketball, provided improper assistance by sometimes adding content to athletes’ papers. Also, in at least one case, she recommended a grade for submitted work.
— Former AFAM office administrator Deborah Crowder, one of two department staffers most directly linked to irregular courses in the department, didn’t cooperate with NCAA investigators.
— Former AFAM department chairman Julius Nyang’oro, the other staffer most directly linked to the department’s irregular courses, also declined to cooperate with the NCAA probe.
The NCAA reopened an investigation into academic misconduct last summer connected to the AFAM department. The focus was courses often treated as independent studies that required no class time and one or two research papers, with many operating that way despite being scheduled as lecture classes.
An eight-month investigation conducted by former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein stated that Crowder — not a faculty member — typically handed out assignments then high grades after only a scan of the work. Wainstein’s October report found problems running from 1993 to 2011 and affecting more than 3,100 students, with athletes accounting for roughly half the enrollments in the problem courses.
Both Crowder and Nyang’oro cooperated with Wainstein’s probe.
The arrival of the NCAA notice will ultimately lead to a hearing for the school with the infractions committee, which would then issue a ruling and any potential sanctions within a time frame of weeks to months.
The school announced May 22 it had received the notice of allegations, but it didn’t release the document publicly until Thursday to redact information to comply with privacy laws.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/c...tions-wake-academic-scandal-article-1.2246700
For UNC-Say three Hail Marys and promise not to do it again.
These are some big time findings. If the NCAA was true to its mission they should really shut down football and basketball for a year. Will never happen but they should at least kill 1/3 to 1/2 of their scholly's for a year and then gradually bring them back over three years and lose a National Championship too.
What does Syracuse, Uconn and UNC have in common (aside from not following rules). They are very successful on the court and make a ton of money because of basketball.
These penalties hurt, but the reward for being a top program is just too great.
These penalties hurt, but the reward for being a top program is just too great.
Sorry. Can't mix church & state or then politically correct progressives will be all over you. So UNC only has to promise not to do it again.
Why Thursday was a good day for Roy Williams and his program
Rob Dauster
Jun 4, 2015, 7:03 PM EDT
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On Thursday, North Carolina officially released the Notice of Allegations that they had received from the NCAA on May 20th.
The damage? Five Level I violations, including a charge of lack of institutional control charge and broad and wide-ranging accusations of impermissible benefits.
(The NCAA essentially determined that the academic fraud happening at the university was a scholastic issue and that advisers guiding athletes into those so-called ‘paper classes’ — independent study courses that were turned into sham classes in order for students, both athletes and normal members of the student body, to receive easy grades — was a benefit that was not provided to regular students.)
It’s bad, but it’s not as bad as it could have been. The men’s basketball program — one of the NCAA’s cash cows and a flagship program for the association — was not named specifically in any violation. The academic adviser for the women’s basketball team, an ex-head of the African and Afro-American Studies department and his former student services adviser were targeted in three of the five Level I violations.
Roy Williams?
His named was mentioned a single time in the 59 page document, and that was to note when he was interviewed by the NCAA. One of his assistants, Steve Robinson, was also mentioned a single time to note when he was interviewed.
That doesn’t mean that Williams’ program avoided any link to the issue the Notice of Allegations raised. In a 732 page addendum to the report, there are a number of emails that connect the men’s basketball team to the ‘paper classes’. That includes emails that were sent by former men’s basketball academic adviser William Walden, who followed Williams to UNC from Kansas. Walden is no longer with the program. Those emails are cited as evidence for the impermissible benefits received by student-athletes.
The men’s basketball program will also assuredly be linked to the lack of institutional control charge.
What remains to be seen now is how the NCAA will dole out the punishments for these findings. That’s a process that will take months to play out. North Carolina has until August 20th to respond to the allegation and the NCAA will then have two months to address their response. All that has to happen before a date in front of the Committee of Infractions can even be set. At the very least, North Carolina will likely have to wait until at least January to find out just what kind of punishment they are going to receive.
Last week, before the Notice of Allegations was released, I wrote that the only way that the NCAA could truly get this punishment wrong would be to ban the Tar Heels from the 2016 postseason. I still believe that — simply put, I’m morally against a postseason ban once that season has begun — but after reading through these allegations, I find myself wondering if that punishment is still going to be on the table.
There’s no way to be able to predict what the NCAA is going to do here, mind you. This situation is, to my knowledge, unprecedented, not that the NCAA has ever followed precedent. But consider the following:
It’s impossible to know.
But to me, is does not.
Which is why Thursday was a good day for the men’s basketball program and its fans and a bad day for the NCAA conspiracy theorists, because it’s pretty easy to assume the NCAA simply is not going to have the brass buttons lay the wood on one of the strongest brands in all of collegiate athletics.
As late, great Jerry Tarkanian probably would have said, “The NCAA is so mad at Roy Williams and North Carolina, they’ll probably slap two more years of probation on the UNC women’s team.”
Rob Dauster
Jun 4, 2015, 7:03 PM EDT
Getty Images
On Thursday, North Carolina officially released the Notice of Allegations that they had received from the NCAA on May 20th.
The damage? Five Level I violations, including a charge of lack of institutional control charge and broad and wide-ranging accusations of impermissible benefits.
(The NCAA essentially determined that the academic fraud happening at the university was a scholastic issue and that advisers guiding athletes into those so-called ‘paper classes’ — independent study courses that were turned into sham classes in order for students, both athletes and normal members of the student body, to receive easy grades — was a benefit that was not provided to regular students.)
It’s bad, but it’s not as bad as it could have been. The men’s basketball program — one of the NCAA’s cash cows and a flagship program for the association — was not named specifically in any violation. The academic adviser for the women’s basketball team, an ex-head of the African and Afro-American Studies department and his former student services adviser were targeted in three of the five Level I violations.
Roy Williams?
His named was mentioned a single time in the 59 page document, and that was to note when he was interviewed by the NCAA. One of his assistants, Steve Robinson, was also mentioned a single time to note when he was interviewed.
That doesn’t mean that Williams’ program avoided any link to the issue the Notice of Allegations raised. In a 732 page addendum to the report, there are a number of emails that connect the men’s basketball team to the ‘paper classes’. That includes emails that were sent by former men’s basketball academic adviser William Walden, who followed Williams to UNC from Kansas. Walden is no longer with the program. Those emails are cited as evidence for the impermissible benefits received by student-athletes.
The men’s basketball program will also assuredly be linked to the lack of institutional control charge.
What remains to be seen now is how the NCAA will dole out the punishments for these findings. That’s a process that will take months to play out. North Carolina has until August 20th to respond to the allegation and the NCAA will then have two months to address their response. All that has to happen before a date in front of the Committee of Infractions can even be set. At the very least, North Carolina will likely have to wait until at least January to find out just what kind of punishment they are going to receive.
Last week, before the Notice of Allegations was released, I wrote that the only way that the NCAA could truly get this punishment wrong would be to ban the Tar Heels from the 2016 postseason. I still believe that — simply put, I’m morally against a postseason ban once that season has begun — but after reading through these allegations, I find myself wondering if that punishment is still going to be on the table.
There’s no way to be able to predict what the NCAA is going to do here, mind you. This situation is, to my knowledge, unprecedented, not that the NCAA has ever followed precedent. But consider the following:
- Nothing came of the accusations that Rashad McCants made on an episode of Outside The Lines, when he claimed that he took four sham courses in order to remain eligible during the 2005 national title run.
- There were reportedly 3,100 students involved in the academic fraud, dating all the way back to 1993, half of them athletes. The NCAA declined to investigate, stating that this was an academic issue that athletics took advantage of, not a scheme concocted by anyone in the athletic department.
- And, most importantly, while the independent Wainstein Report — a damning internal investigation into the academic fraud — found that this paper class scandal helped the men’s basketball program, nothing in the Notice of Allegations specifically tied the coaching staff to the violations. That may ruin Williams’ public image, but ask Kentucky head coach John Calipari how much being labeled a cheater matters in this business.
It’s impossible to know.
But to me, is does not.
Which is why Thursday was a good day for the men’s basketball program and its fans and a bad day for the NCAA conspiracy theorists, because it’s pretty easy to assume the NCAA simply is not going to have the brass buttons lay the wood on one of the strongest brands in all of collegiate athletics.
As late, great Jerry Tarkanian probably would have said, “The NCAA is so mad at Roy Williams and North Carolina, they’ll probably slap two more years of probation on the UNC women’s team.”
Inistitutional failure. Penalty should be institutional. The academic fraud was pervasive. Ding the entire athletic program. Restrict scholarships significantly in all programs for many years. Make them use real students, not paid athletes for hire, for a bunch of years.
UNC should really get the death penalty here. The kicker of all this too is that a lot of this happened under Swafford's watch as AD and now he is the commissioner of the ACC. Talk about an absolute joke.
haha not this time
those are on all the other unc threads people start. just dont like people casting stones and supporting msm's narrative.
This week, on the (tar) heels of revelations of 18 years of systemic academic fraud that should have brought shame and shame-driven change to University of North Carolina student-athletics, the school instead prepared to reward its highest-paid beneficiary of the fraud, basketball coach Roy Williams, with a contract extension for a job well done.
Apparently, Williams, hired in 2003, provided the appropriate response to the revelations that many, if not most of his recruits, were enrolled in sham, no-show courses for which they scored A-to-A-plus to preserve their eligibility. Rashad McCants, a star of North Carolina’s and Williams’ 2005 NCAA Championship team, is alleged to have made the Dean’s List despite having done zero academic work.
Coach Williams said he had no idea, no clue. And that’s plenty good enough for UNC, a scenic school that overlooks everything except losing basketball games.
So, for 18 years UNC pursued 18-year-olds, dangling full scholarships to play for its basketball team, no reading, writing or arithmetic wanted or needed. You wanna be a junior? Poof, you’re a junior! Senior? Done. Dean’s List? Dean Smith? Oh, that one! Sure! Just hurry up. Don’t be shut out of those imaginary classes!
The logical will conclude that North Carolina not only likes the way Williams had no idea about the academic realities of those he recruits to the college, but also UNC would like him to continue being — or at least playing — ignorant. Keep up the good work, Coach!
Logical folks also can conclude UNC is so shamed by its ways and means on behalf of big-ticket, big-TV money, big-time basketball and football — or so shamed by being caught — that it would like to preserve the status quo. Thus, it’s important that our coaches continue to know nothing about anything.
Or is it that everyone knew that everyone knew, that Williams, all those years, knew what UNC’s wink-and-nod professors, department heads and board of governors knew, thus there was nothing left to do except pledge continued allegiance to Williams?
So, we’re expected to believe that at no time since 2003 was Williams moved to inquire about the academic eligibility — and the means to that end — of his players. It wasn’t, after all, that they had to miss classes for practice. There were no classes!..................
http://nypost.com/2015/06/11/fifa-scandal-has-nothing-on-sham-that-is-big-time-college-hoops/
Apparently, Williams, hired in 2003, provided the appropriate response to the revelations that many, if not most of his recruits, were enrolled in sham, no-show courses for which they scored A-to-A-plus to preserve their eligibility. Rashad McCants, a star of North Carolina’s and Williams’ 2005 NCAA Championship team, is alleged to have made the Dean’s List despite having done zero academic work.
Coach Williams said he had no idea, no clue. And that’s plenty good enough for UNC, a scenic school that overlooks everything except losing basketball games.
So, for 18 years UNC pursued 18-year-olds, dangling full scholarships to play for its basketball team, no reading, writing or arithmetic wanted or needed. You wanna be a junior? Poof, you’re a junior! Senior? Done. Dean’s List? Dean Smith? Oh, that one! Sure! Just hurry up. Don’t be shut out of those imaginary classes!
The logical will conclude that North Carolina not only likes the way Williams had no idea about the academic realities of those he recruits to the college, but also UNC would like him to continue being — or at least playing — ignorant. Keep up the good work, Coach!
Logical folks also can conclude UNC is so shamed by its ways and means on behalf of big-ticket, big-TV money, big-time basketball and football — or so shamed by being caught — that it would like to preserve the status quo. Thus, it’s important that our coaches continue to know nothing about anything.
Or is it that everyone knew that everyone knew, that Williams, all those years, knew what UNC’s wink-and-nod professors, department heads and board of governors knew, thus there was nothing left to do except pledge continued allegiance to Williams?
So, we’re expected to believe that at no time since 2003 was Williams moved to inquire about the academic eligibility — and the means to that end — of his players. It wasn’t, after all, that they had to miss classes for practice. There were no classes!..................
http://nypost.com/2015/06/11/fifa-scandal-has-nothing-on-sham-that-is-big-time-college-hoops/
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