CHAPEL HILL — A probe into academic “irregularities” at UNC-Chapel Hill’s African and Afro-American studies department is targeting independent study classes after data released to The News & Observer this week show football players are accounting for more than 20 percent of the class enrollments over the past five years.
Karen Gil, dean of UNC-CH’s College of Arts and Sciences, which includes the African studies department, said in a faculty newspaper published Wednesday that the college would review “policies and practices” collegewide for independent studies and “directed readings” courses. A university spokeswoman, Nancy Davis, confirmed the independent study courses within the department are among the possible irregularities officials have found.
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It’s also unclear how many “directed readings” classes were offered by the department. UNC-CH also has had difficulty producing syllabuses of some upper-level classes Nyang’oro taught, including the intermediate Swahili class that got McAdoo in trouble. University officials so far have been unable to confirm when and where that class was held. That class is not typically an independent study course.
Alert readers might remember this SFN story from last August. It contained a discussion of this tweet from UNC-CH running back Shaun Draughn:
Maybe this tweet should be looked at again in light of recent developments.
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