Capitol Press Association columnist Scott Mooneyham has a new column out on the UNC-Chapel Hill football & academics scandal. In it, he says it’s time for a thorough investigation, particularly into how football players got into credit-for-little-effort summer school class taught by Julius Nyang’oro. Specific questions that Mooneyham says need to answered included:
Who told football players to enroll in these classes? Why these classes and not others? Did the advisers assigned to athletes know about the academic fraud? Did they have any conversations with athletics department officials regarding this class or others taught by Nyang’oro?
Where was the oversight of Nyang’oro and his courses? Did his assignment to so many summer school courses violate university policy? If not, why not? If so, why was it allowed?
Finally, what role did [UNC-Chapel Hill Chanceller Holden] Thorp himself play, in his previous job as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, in any lack of oversight of Nyang’oro’s department, his course assignments and the athletics academic support staff, which also reports to the college?
Sounds like a good list.
