A Division I Committee on Infractions hearing panel could not conclude that the University of North Carolina violated Ncaa Academic rules when it made available deficient Department of African and Afro-American Studies “paper courses” to the general student body, including student-athletes.
The NCAA has steep penalties for what it calls a “lack of institutional control” or a “failure to monitor” for violations, but it didn’t find that either of those things happened in Chapel Hill.
UNC acknowledged that those shortcomings included its failure to review the AFRI/AFAM department and its chair, based on policies existing at the time.
That’s when news surfaced that the NCAA was investigating the school’s football program — initially to learn whether players had received impermissible benefits.
It traces back to academic hires the university made in the late 1970s and mid-1980s, which laid the groundwork for the courses the NCAA eventually honed in on.
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