UNC Academic Cheating Scandal

[tksirius]

If they're fighting it this hard, I'm sure the NCAA will eventually just back down and put some directional state school on probation.

"UNC has now amassed at least $16.3 million in costs tied to the academic scandal dating to 2012, including $3.1 million for a 2014 investigation by former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein into irregularities in the academic department at the center of the case.

Most notably, those problems included independent study-style courses misidentified as lecture classes that didn't meet and required a research paper or two featuring significant athlete enrollments. Wainstein estimated more than 3,100 students were affected between 1993 and 2011, with athletes across numerous sports accounting for roughly half the enrollments in problem courses."

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...versity-56-million-attorneys-fees-other-costs

 

[WinOneThisCentury]

This is really interesting. I didn't know athletes were actually required to go to classes. Seriously? I thought they were just there to make the University money, kind of like circus animals. Hmmm...who knew. What's next, they expect them to graduate too? Ok, I know i'm getting ahead of myself.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

If they're fighting it this hard, I'm sure the NCAA will eventually just back down and put some directional state school on probation.

"UNC has now amassed at least $16.3 million in costs tied to the academic scandal dating to 2012, including $3.1 million for a 2014 investigation by former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein into irregularities in the academic department at the center of the case.

Most notably, those problems included independent study-style courses misidentified as lecture classes that didn't meet and required a research paper or two featuring significant athlete enrollments. Wainstein estimated more than 3,100 students were affected between 1993 and 2011, with athletes across numerous sports accounting for roughly half the enrollments in problem courses."

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...versity-56-million-attorneys-fees-other-costs

All involved are working diligently to bury this thing. I'm even a little surprised ESPN didn't suppress any/all of the info their person/people found.

 

[Sooby]

Funny thing is that the NCAA is more upset at the state of North Carolina for not allowing dudes in girls restrooms, then they are about the academic scandal at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Didn't know that dudes in girls restrooms is higher priority for the NCAA then, say, college academics.

 

[Robowe]

This is really interesting. I didn't know athletes were actually required to go to classes. Seriously? I thought they were just there to make the University money, kind of like circus animals. Hmmm...who knew. What's next, they expect them to graduate too? Ok, I know i'm getting ahead of myself.

 

[BryceC]

I think this and violence by athletes are things that need to be cracked down on hard. They clean that up and I'm pretty ambivalent about everything else.

That said the first time I went to college I screwed around a ton and didn't take anything seriously. If there was a dumb class I could take that took as little effort as possible, I took it. Academic fraud is a different story, but I wasn't doing anything as fun or important as playing on a college basketball team and I was doing basically just what I needed to not to get kicked out of school.

 

[mopkins]

When I was in school I remember the athletes being gone constantly, especially the baseball players in the second semester. They would always travel to the south to play baseball in February and March and so were almost never in school.

They're trying to make a thing of Maye being in class on Monday, never mind the fact that he was almost for sure excused from class on Thursday and Friday. And when I say excused, they get excused from the homework and testing on those days as well.

 

[homes]

This reminds me of that Chris Rock bit when he caps on guys bragging about taking care of their kids. Rock says something like, that's no accomplishment, you're supposed to take care of your kids - you don't deserve a pat on the back for doing what you're supposed to do (although he's much funnier when he tells it).

Maye is supposed to go to class, isn't he?

The bar of what constitutes achievement keeps getting lower.

 

[uihawk82]

Most of this academic cheating starts at the top with administrators and coaches who want big time sports trophies. Students need to tell them to shove it if they have any brains at all. Athlete violence and student overall violence, especially toward women, is terrible at colleges and universities. Most people can live their whole lives without hitting or being violent to others. Crack down hard on the violent people and rapists.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

You mean, he made it "all the way back" from Memphis to Chapel Hill in time for class? Please. that's an 80-minute trip.

 

[tksirius]

Are NCAA.COM & NCAA.ORG one and the same? Is that twitter account really run by the agency that is supposed to be investigating UNC? If yes, it really explains a lot.