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Related: About this forumUNC probe reveals approximately 1,500 student-athletes took bogus classes
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/unc-academic-and-athletic-officials-steered-student-athletes-to-bogus-classes-181214478.htmlThe University of North Carolina Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes was found culpable of creating easy, non-show classes that catered to student-athletes in an effort to give them better grades.
Kenneth Wainstein, a former top U.S. Justice Department official, said during a press conference Wednesday that academic counselors ushered as many as 3,100 students approximately 1,500 of them student-athletes into bogus classes that were geared toward keeping student-athletes eligible for play over the past 18 years (1993-2011)....
Wainstein said many academic and athletic officials knew about the scheme, which began with Deborah Crowder, a longtime manager for the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, and gave student-athletes inflated grades for what Wainstein termed paper classes.
Paper classes were essentially classes that were independent study, had no professor and just required a paper at the end of the term. According to Wainstein, Crowder never gave students a grade unless they actually submitted a paper, but she awarded artificially high grades to the papers submitted regardless of their content.
Kenneth Wainstein, a former top U.S. Justice Department official, said during a press conference Wednesday that academic counselors ushered as many as 3,100 students approximately 1,500 of them student-athletes into bogus classes that were geared toward keeping student-athletes eligible for play over the past 18 years (1993-2011)....
Wainstein said many academic and athletic officials knew about the scheme, which began with Deborah Crowder, a longtime manager for the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, and gave student-athletes inflated grades for what Wainstein termed paper classes.
Paper classes were essentially classes that were independent study, had no professor and just required a paper at the end of the term. According to Wainstein, Crowder never gave students a grade unless they actually submitted a paper, but she awarded artificially high grades to the papers submitted regardless of their content.
It would surprise me greatly if this problem were confined solely to Chapel Hill.
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UNC probe reveals approximately 1,500 student-athletes took bogus classes (Original Post)
KamaAina
Oct 2014
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joeybee12
(56,177 posts)1. I'm sure this happens elsewhere...
And I'm sure the NCAA has always known and looks the other way.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)2. The University of Nonexistant Classes.
I think you're right, I'll bet you can find this, to some degree, at almost any major D1 school.
Auggie
(31,189 posts)3. Universities ... contributing to the dumbing down of America
What the fuck is happening???
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)4. The amount of time and energy that some student athletes have to devote to their sport
is staggering. No student can maintain a regular class load and be a "student-athlete". Sure, there are examples of students that excel at both, but they are not the norm.
These schools make a ton of money off of these athletes and they don't want to stop the money train.