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There’s a possibility that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could hear on Thursday from an accreditation organization that has been reviewing the findings of a report that outlined nearly two decades of academic fraud at the university.
The 224 page report was submitted back in January to the Southern Association of College and Schools. School officials are asking that the group find them in compliance with various accreditation standards.
Kenneth Wainstein, a former federal prosecutor, released a report in October that showed academic advisers at UNC-Chapel Hill steered student-athletes for 18 years toward classes that never met credits and required only a short paper to pass.
UNC-CH was put on notice by the SAC when claims of academic impropriety first surfaced in 2011. Last fall SACS president Belle Wheelan said that her organization considered the findings of Wainstein as a new issue.
SACS vice president Cheryl Cardell told UNC-Chapel Hill officials in a November letter that outlined Wainstein’s findings and claimed they didn’t match with information the university provided to the accrediting organization in 2013, when officials initially insisted the fraud was limited to the activities of two people in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies.
SAC has asked UNC-CH to provide documentation to demonstrate the university is complying with 18 standards of accreditation, including institutional integrity, program content, academic support services and control of college athletics.
If SACS votes to pull UNC’s accreditation, the availability of financial aid could be impacted.
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