George Leef writes for the James G. Martin Center about former Daily Tar Heel editor Andy Thomason’s new book, Discredited: The UNC Scandal and College Athletics’ Amateur Ideal. Here’s an excerpt:…
George Leef of the Martin Center looks back at the athletic and academic scandal that rocked UNC-Chapel Hill. A decade ago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was…
A recent poll suggests that North Carolina will produce another close presidential battle in 2020. Rick Henderson analyzes presidential numbers and other highlights from the latest Civitas Poll for the…
Jay Schalin of the Martin Center explores the controversy involving a UNC-Chapel Hill course devoted to the history of college sports. The Raleigh News and Observer recently published a contentious…
When the big scandal over the big operation to keep football and basketball stars eligible to play began breaking, top UNC officials did all they could to sweep it under…
Walter Williams devotes a column posted at Human Events to the athletic scandal engulfing UNC-Chapel Hill. Let’s look at the motivation for this gross academic fraud. If you said follow…
The staggering finding by Kenneth L. Wainstein’s investigation into UNC-Chapel Hill’s “shadow curriculum” for athletes — discussed in some detail by Jane Shaw at the Pope Center — was that…
Turns out that UNC athletics whistleblower Mary Willingham completed her master’s thesis —entitled “Academics & Athletics — A Clash of Cultures: Division I Football Programs”—- at UNCG. And now posters…
Should UNC have silenced Mary Willingham, whose research showed that a large percentage of UNC athletes had shockingly low reading ability? Jenna Robinson explains the background to the controversy and…
Paul M. Barrett’s article today, “Four Blunt Points About UNC, College Sports, and Academic Corruption,” opens this way: The powers that be in North Carolina seem unable to accept that…
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s treatment of researcher and learning specialist Mary Willingham, whose “analysis of academically at-risk athletes at UNC-Chapel Hill showed that more than half…