A guide to review, response and reform at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNC-Chapel Hill has responded to a request by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) for information about the University’s compliance with accreditation standards. The University is accredited and in good standing with SACSCOC.
President Tom Ross and Chancellor Carol L. Folt asked former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Kenneth L. Wainstein to conduct an independent inquiry into past academic irregularities.
These relevant documents were used in Kenneth Wainstein’s Investigation of Irregular Classes in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
These documents are referenced in the footnotes of Kenneth Wainstein’s Investigation of Irregular Classes in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
On October 22nd, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today announced the results of an independent investigation conducted by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein into past academic irregularities at Carolina and took immediate action to address the findings.
The University’s point of view on taking responsibility, why this investigation was different, reforms and the future.
I’m Tom Ross, President of the University of North Carolina. And I want to begin by thanking each of you for being here today. I also want to thank you for your patience these past several months as we all waited for today to arrive.
Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities (AAU), chaired the panel of distinguished national leaders in higher education and athletics; it made recommendations about the role of athletics in campus life.
A five-member Board of Governors Academic Review Panel was commissioned by UNC President Tom Ross in July 2012 to review the University’s response to the academic irregularities.
This clarification relates to the references to the Faculty Athletic Committee (FAC) that were made in the December 19, 2012 Martin Report.