USA Africa Dialogue Series - UNC Investigation Finds Academic Fraud in Department

Folks:

 

This is a sad, troubling story that involves Prof. Julius Nyang'oro of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of African and Afro-American Studies. Trouble dey for this na our world oh! Very troubling!

 

Kwabena.

 

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/04/2044178/report-finds-academic-fraud-evidence.html

 

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-of-north-carolina-investigation-finds-academic-fraud-in-department/43069

 

U. of North Carolina Investigation Finds Academic Fraud in Department

May 5, 2012, 12:32 pm

More than 50 courses in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's department of African and Afro-American studies featured no-show professors, unauthorized grade changes, and other examples of academic fraud from 2007 to 2011, according to an internal investigation described by The News & Observer, a newspaper in Raleigh, N.C. The evidence of fraud was most common in summer courses taught by Julius Nyang'oro, the department's founding chairman, who resigned from that post in September and will retire on July 1. (The newspaper could not reach him for comment.)

One such course, in which a football player drew credit for classes the professor didn't attend, was among the reasons the NCAA imposed academic-fraud penalties this year. But the investigation found no evidence that athletes were treated more favorably than other students. The officials who conducted the inquiry said they were "deeply disturbed" by their findings, which they said "have the potential to generate unfounded doubt and mistrust toward the department and its faculty, and could harm the academic reputation of the university."