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UNC Admits Academic Fraud: Lack Of Institutional Controls, *NCAA Issues 3rd NOA
Posted on 1/1/14 at 7:58 pm
Posted on 1/1/14 at 7:58 pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/sports/as-for-athletes-but-charges-of-tar-heel-fraud.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp&
Good read, provides a lot of the key facts that lead up to this indictment.
https://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/11745036/north-carolina-investigation-says-advisers-pushed-sham-classes
https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article122190244.html
Good read, provides a lot of the key facts that lead up to this indictment.
https://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/11745036/north-carolina-investigation-says-advisers-pushed-sham-classes
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A report commissioned by the University of North Carolina says school academic advisers steered athletes into sham classes over an 18-year period but does not directly implicate coaches or athletic administrators in the scheme.
The report, released Wednesday, says academic advisers in North Carolina's athletic department colluded with a manager in the African and Afro-American Studies department for student-athletes to take classes to boost their GPAs and keep them eligible in their respective sports.
https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article122190244.html
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UNC-Chapel Hill has received a third notice of allegations from the NCAA in the academic fraud case, several weeks after appearing before the association’s Committee on Infractions in a rare procedural hearing. Rick White, a UNC spokesman, confirmed in a short email that the third notice had been delivered. He did not offer details, but said the new notice would be posted on UNC’s website. The case involves 18 years of bogus classes offered by a former manager of the African and Afro-American Studies department and the department chairman. Half of the roughly 3,100 students who took the classes were athletes, with football and men’s basketball having the highest enrollments.
This post was edited on 12/21/16 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 1/1/14 at 8:13 pm to CockInYourEar
They should have gotten Penn State type penalties or the death penalty. That shite is ridiculous
Posted on 1/2/14 at 6:07 am to Cockopotamus
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They should have gotten Penn State type penalties or the death penalty.
Thy got worse... they're still the tarheels.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 9:38 pm to Mr.Sinister
Posted on 1/14/14 at 9:45 pm to CockInYourEar
https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/
Wow, Willingham was a researcher at UNC, she shredded them from the inside.
Interactive tool to look at the schools CNN researched.
Wow, Willingham was a researcher at UNC, she shredded them from the inside.
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As a graduate student at UNC-Greensboro, Willingham researched the reading levels of 183 UNC-Chapel Hill athletes who played football or basketball from 2004 to 2012. She found that 60% read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. Between 8% and 10% read below a third-grade level.
Interactive tool to look at the schools CNN researched.
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From Mary Willingham's research, based on Scholastic Aptitude Test for Adults:
-- Of 183 athletes in revenue-generating sports admitted to UNC between 2004 and 2012:
-- About 60% were reading between the fourth and eighth grade reading levels.
-- Between 8% and 10% were reading below a third grade level.
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We asked UNC to comment specifically on Mary Willingham's research and they told us they were not aware of it, and that it wasn't part of her job to do research. But then we showed them emails between Willingham and university officials that show she had approval to conduct the research and shared her findings with university officials. UNC then told CNN they plan to meet with her to discuss what she found.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 9:47 pm to CockInYourEar
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Clemson University
According to several academic experts, the threshold for being college literate is a score of 400 on the SAT critical reading or writing test. On the ACT, that threshold is 16.
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Football
-- 34/199 scored below the threshold.
and they said Clowney couldn't get into clem5on, right?
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According to Clemson, the average SAT verbal score for incoming freshmen in 2012: 607.
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Average SAT verbal of football players admitted between 2007 and 2012: 477
The university declined to respond to additional questions.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/01/us/college-scores/index.html
This post was edited on 12/21/16 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 1/15/14 at 8:10 am to CockInYourEar
Reminds me of the Obama administration and how they cover for their cronies.
The NCAA is a farce. Reading some of that, etc., just pisses me off.
The NCAA is a farce. Reading some of that, etc., just pisses me off.
Posted on 1/16/14 at 12:45 pm to scrooster
Oh snap. Now they're saying it wasn't just the AFRO Department, but the academic counselors for the school were actually pushing the athletes towards those classes.
https://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/15/3535977/former-unc-player-ties-counselors.html
https://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/15/3535977/former-unc-player-ties-counselors.html
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A key UNC football player in the NCAA’s investigation into improper benefits says he was led by academic counselors to four no-show classes and that the academic environment for athletes at the university was “a scam.”
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“They pretty much put me in that class,” McAdoo said of the counselors in the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes. “They pretty much told me ... that I might want to consider that class and I really don’t have much time to think about it, so (I might) want to take that class while it was available.”
That class, and more than 200 others that are now either confirmed or suspected of having never met, are now being used as evidence in a lawsuit by attorneys representing college athletes who want a cut of the revenues when their names, images and likenesses are sold by universities.
Posted on 1/16/14 at 10:13 pm to CockInYourEar
https://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/10306834/north-carolina-tar-heels-investigating-athlete-literacy-claims-chancellor-says
UNC Chancellor wants to investigate literacy claims.
UNC Chancellor wants to investigate literacy claims.
Posted on 1/17/14 at 8:17 am to CockInYourEar
https://www.wralsportsfan.com/unc/audio/13305475/
Oh snap, someone gave Mary Willingham a microphone again.
"We're fighting a multi-million dollar machine."
"I don't have the same benefits now as I did there before."
UNC came out and said that their own study's results based on data from '12-'13 doesn't match Willingham's data from '05-'12.....no shite, it's a different set of years. haha, Mary Willingham said she's really confused on why they would even say that.
"I stand behind my data 100%, my claims are 100% correct."
Too long to type everything, but some real good info starts around 4:30 in the audio clip.
"Everyone is saying they didn't know what was going on, maybe nobody was in charge, I mean it's pretty odd, all these classes athletes were in, degrees for paper classes being given out, but nobody knows about it, and nobody is in charge." Lack of institutional controls?
Oh snap, someone gave Mary Willingham a microphone again.
"We're fighting a multi-million dollar machine."
"I don't have the same benefits now as I did there before."
UNC came out and said that their own study's results based on data from '12-'13 doesn't match Willingham's data from '05-'12.....no shite, it's a different set of years. haha, Mary Willingham said she's really confused on why they would even say that.
"I stand behind my data 100%, my claims are 100% correct."
Too long to type everything, but some real good info starts around 4:30 in the audio clip.
"Everyone is saying they didn't know what was going on, maybe nobody was in charge, I mean it's pretty odd, all these classes athletes were in, degrees for paper classes being given out, but nobody knows about it, and nobody is in charge." Lack of institutional controls?
This post was edited on 1/17/14 at 8:20 am
Posted on 1/17/14 at 3:21 pm to CockInYourEar
Like I said earlier, they deserve the death penalty.
Posted on 1/23/14 at 9:16 pm to Cockopotamus
https://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/23/3557624/unc-chancellor-says-university.html#emlnl=Breaking_News
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In public remarks at a Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, Folt said the university accepts responsibility and is “absolutely” accountable for years of bogus African studies courses that were significantly populated by athletes. And, Folt said, the university must “fully acknowledge and accept lessons of our past” before moving toward meaningful athletic and academic reform.
Until Thursday, Folt had been comfortable letting Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham and Provost Jim Dean do most of the talking about the scandals.
But Folt stepped forward after more than a week of explosive headlines and national news coverage about the literacy levels of UNC basketball and football players.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 8:18 am to CockInYourEar
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of assholes.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 8:20 am to RoyalAir
https://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/23/3558705/the-no-sues-unc-chancellor-for.html
..but wait, there's more. Now the Newspaper is suing Chancellor Folt ant the Tarhole Empire for access to Willingham's spreadsheet.
..but wait, there's more. Now the Newspaper is suing Chancellor Folt ant the Tarhole Empire for access to Willingham's spreadsheet.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 8:22 pm to Cockopotamus
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Like I said earlier, they deserve the death penalty.
:kige:
UNC and Dook have been dirty for ages but they will never get the same treatment as the rest of the country when it comes to punishment.
To paraphrase Jerry - "The NCAA is so mad at North Carolina they're going to give Wake Forest another year of probation."
Posted on 1/28/14 at 9:09 am to Cheese Grits
Mary WIllingham, the whistleblower, shares her side of the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppdM44biSw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppdM44biSw0
Posted on 1/30/14 at 9:45 pm to CockInYourEar
https://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/30/3578294/a-former-unc-dean-recalls-athletes.html
Former UNC Dean gives her account of the academic problem going on at UNC.
Former UNC Dean gives her account of the academic problem going on at UNC.
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A former interim dean of UNC-Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences has sent a letter to Chancellor Carol Folt and Provost Jim Dean, challenging their claims that the university was not admitting athletes unable to read at a high-school level.
Madeline Levine, a highly honored professor emeritus, said that as a dean, she was made aware of instances in which the university has admitted athletes with substantial academic challenges, including one she suspected was “functionally illiterate” during her tenure.
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Levine wrote. “It is appalling that the highest officials at UNC – before it became clear that attacking a whistle-blower is not a smart PR move – mounted a concerted public attack on the accuracy of Ms. Willingham’s statistical analysis and, by implication, against her personally, while steadfastly refusing to engage with the core issue that concerns her: the exploitation of student-athletes and the concomitant abuse of the academic values by which a great university should live.”
Posted on 1/30/14 at 10:47 pm to CockInYourEar
Nothing to see hear, nothing will happen. But god forbid our players stay at a hotel and not pay the bill in an irresponsible manner.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 7:51 am to Wholelottacock
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nothing will happen
Unless they take down the basketball banners anything the folks running the Tar Heels do will be hollow.
Posted on 2/4/14 at 9:11 pm to Cheese Grits
https://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-04/unc-academic-fraud-scandal-sparks-racial-recriminations
I wonder if the unc faculty were put up to this by the administration?
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The University of North Carolina academic fraud scandal has entered its Tom Wolfe phase, revealing a racial subtext of the uniquely ironic and bitter American variety.
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In a statement dated Feb. 1, the Carolina Black Caucus, a campus group, declared: “We stand united for black Americans, both enslaved and free, who built this university and who were also barred from its doors.” The caucus added that it stands united for “black athletes who face stereotype, threat, and are targets of ridicule”; “the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, which has been unfairly attacked, overly investigated, and whose legitimacy has been repeatedly questioned”; [and] “courageous administrators, faculty, staff, and students who press on despite impatience, media inaccuracies, gossip, and public attacks on our institution.”
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The sordid affair hasn’t been “overly investigated.” To the contrary, UNC has resisted getting to the bottom of it—especially the degree of culpability of the Tar Heels Athletic Department. Appointed last summer, Chancellor Carol Folt belatedly has admitted that UNC still hasn’t gotten its arms around a scandal that forced her predecessor to step down in humiliation. This is not a made-up controversy based on “media inaccuracies” or “gossip.”
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Thankfully, Phillip Jackson, executive director of a Chicago education reform group called the Black Star Project, has stepped up to set matters straight. In a Feb. 3 letter thst he has sent to dozens of newspapers in North Carolina, Jackson wrote: “As a black man in America, I find it appalling that the University of North Carolina’s Black Caucus would choose to issue a declaration of support to defend UNC even after the university admitted that it cheated young black men out of the best education possible on its campus.” Jackson, a former corporate executive and public servant who has served Chicago in roles such as chief of education and assistant city budget director, added: “Maybe these esteemed faculty and staff of the UNC Black Caucus don’t realize that their university students are not just competing among themselves in the big cities and small towns of North Carolina. Maybe they don’t understand that being globally competent is a way ‘bigger game’ than football or basketball!”
I wonder if the unc faculty were put up to this by the administration?
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