Sunday, April 27, 2014

NC: UNC fake-classes whistleblower resigns after meeting with Carol Folt

Via LH

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Two years ago, I wrote about academic fraud involving the department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The fraud extended to more than 50 different classes. It ranged from no-show professors to unauthorized grade changes for students.

Many of the students who took the bogus courses were members of the football or basketball team. Seeking to protect the image of its lucrative athletic programs and to avoid NCAA sanctions (which it has done), the University noted that the fraud was not limited to athletes and that the other students who enrolled in these courses also escaped having to do course work or, depending on the course, show up for class.

Sadly, there was some truth to the University’s “defense.” The corruption was at least as much about academics (an unaccountable department devoid of intellectual rigor) as about athletics.

But now the University’s athletic program indisputably is in the dock. Mary Willingham, the whistleblower who denounced the existence of the fake classes at UNC, alleges that a substantial percentage of the football and basketball players she worked with as an academic counselor could not read at anything close to a college level.

The University disputes this claim, as is its right. But it has also browbeaten Willingham to the point that she resigned.

More @ Powerline

6 comments:

  1. Folt has been at UNC since last July - here is her quote from Wikipedia when she got the job she vowed to ensure that UNC's students "don’t simply learn what we know but they learn how to create what will be." (huh?)
    Hailing from Dartmouth, look what Folt left behind: one hyper-fragile hispanic student who learned how to WAG THE DOG and stopped the Phiesta celebration - no Pina Coladas for any of you Gringos.
    The only practical solution is to let these athletes who aren't going to cut it in academics go directly to pro teams that will take them. And then fire all the frauds.
    Thank God there are still some people around like Willingham - amazing when you think about it.

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  2. I wonder if UNC will just give me a doctorate if I send them some money? How much will it cost? Another reason for refusing to grant interviews to college grads. Sorry, but they wasted their time, and Daddy's money.

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    1. Absolutely pathetic. Wish I could get my gg grandfather's portrait back. Guaranteed he's embarrassed hanging there.

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  3. I saw her story on the news last week and my jaw dropped. It may have been 60 minutes or some other type of special story broadcast.. Apparently, this has happened all over the country and is just now making it's way into the public view...

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