During Thursday’s meeting of the Board’s Governance Committee, Board member Fred Eshelman said he feels he's been kept in the dark about the investigation.
"I think a lot of us have been surprised, haven't fully understood what was going on, and have found out about it after the fact," he says.
But Ross says officials both from UNC Chapel Hill and the UNC Board of Governors have actually taken efforts not to sweep the scandal under the rug.
“I think we’ve tried to be as open as possible,” he says. “[UNC] Chancellor Thorp disclosed the report about what’d happened in the department under rules that allow him to disclose otherwise confidential personnel information. That indicates that he was certainly trying to be transparent, and then we shared that with our board once we had it.”
Between the summer of 2007 and the summer of 2009, according to an internal investigation conducted by UNC, nine out of 616 total courses in the department were considered aberrant. Students in those classes completed their written coursework and received grades, but no evidence exists that any faculty member actually supervised the course.
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