UNC’s media blitz yesterday makes a lot more sense in light of this morning’s story from the N&O divulging the name of the tutor involved in UNC cheating scandal.
This update last night from Old Macdonald is required reading. Please make sure you get up to speed on yesterday’s events.
Wiley, 22, graduated from UNC in 2009.
She was working as a mentor/tutor in UNC’s academic support program in 2006 when Butch Davis, then the newly hired head football coach, asked for recommendations for a tutor for his son, Drew, now 17. Davis said during an interview Thursday that he was given a list of four or five people who worked in the academic support program. His family used several of the tutors, and the woman in question worked for him from December 2008 to May 2010.
“She was kind of like an academic coach,” said Davis, who declined to name the tutor. “She tried to teach him how to organize his notebooks, how to separate one subject from the other, how to do research, how to do papers, she just helped him in a variety of different [ways]. She was one of a couple of tutors. She worked with specific subjects.
“… She did a good job for our family.”
Meanwhile, she also worked as a tutor/mentor for the school until July 2009 – after she had graduated from UNC with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and just before she started her job teaching fifth grade at a Durham elementary school in August 2009, according to university alumni association records and her teaching contract.
