Investigating the investigation has something of an absurd feel to it, but it is a wise move, and affirms that the university system is taking this case very seriously.
The blame in the fraud case has been placed at the feet of two individuals: former Department of African and Afro-American Studies chairman Julius Nyang’oro and longtime department administrator Deborah Crowder.
The university’s investigation found that from summer school 2007 through summer school 2011, evidence of serious and fraudulent irregularities were discovered in more than 50 classes. Eighteen of nineteen students in one class were members of the UNC football team, and one was a former team member. The scandal came in the aftermath of an NCAA investigation into the football team that led to the firing its head coach, a postseason ban and scholarship restrictions.
Perhaps most disturbing are allegations of forgery of professors’ signatures on grade rolls.
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