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Phone records of former football coach Butch Davis released

By Andy Thomason | September 21

The work-related cellphone records of former head football coach Butch Davis were released today in conjunction with the long-running lawsuit filed by ...

UNC Faculty Athletics Committee strives to be ‘a bond rather than a bridge’ between athletics and academics

By Caroline Leland | September 4

In the wake of recent NCAA sanctions and widespread criticism of the UNC athletic department, University administrators are striving to turn over a new ...

NCAA: UNC scandal doesn’t prompt probe

By Andy Thomason | September 3

Barring any revelations of further academic impropriety involving the University’s student athletes, it appears the NCAA will not undertake a second ...

Davis to release phone records

By Nicole Comparato | August 22

Superior Court Judge Howard Manning issued a court order Wednesday that requires former UNC head football coach Butch Davis to release some of his cellphone ...

Court rules that Butch Davis must release some cellphone records

By Daniel Wiser | August 22

Superior Court Judge Howard Manning has ruled that former head football coach Butch Davis must release some of his personal cell phone records.

Swept up in scandal

By Nicole Comparato | August 21

When Stephanie Buff Preston attended UNC, Julius Nyang’oro was one of the most difficult and challenging professors she had. Now, the questions of ...

New review will seek scandal’s origin

By Nicole Comparato | August 19

Former Gov. Jim Martin said he will undertake a new review of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies as a scientist would — he’ll follow ...

In broadest stroke yet, University announces outside AFAM review

By Nicole Comparato and Andy Thomason | August 16

University officials announced Thursday an outside review of academic irregularities in the African and Afro-American Studies department that will attempt ...

AFAM-loaded 'test transcript' appears to be Julius Peppers'

By Andy Thomason | August 13

Former UNC football and basketball star Julius Peppers took 12 classes in the African and Afro-American Studies department between the summer of 1998 ...

Court decides mostly against UNC in football records suit

By Andy Thomason | August 9

Superior Court Judge Howard Manning released a decision Thursday stating that the University must release some records related to the NCAA football investigation ...

Faculty report implicates athletic department staff

By Elizabeth Johnson | July 26

A report released by the University’s Faculty Executive Committee Thursday implicates athletic department advisors in helping student-athletes sign ...

Tracking a Scandal

By Sam Schaefer | July 25

A timeline of events related to academic fraud and the 2010 NCAA investigation of UNC’s football program. University officials have taken corrective ...

No decision yet in public records case

By Matthew Cox and Elizabeth Johnson | July 19

Superior Court Judge Howard Manning will wait to rule on a hearing between UNC and The Daily Tar Heel, (Raleigh) News & Observer, Charlotte Observer ...

Records suit goes to court

By Matthew Cox | July 19

A hearing will be held in Raleigh on Thursday to determine whether UNC must release documents related to the 2010 NCAA investigation of the University’s ...

AFAM 428 student: I never met Nyang’oro

By Sam Schaefer | July 18

In the summer of 2009, Nate Harrison took AFAM 428 — Bioethics in Afro-American Studies, a class taught by former professor and Department of African ...

UNC has spent nearly half a million dollars on legal fees since June 2010

By Elizabeth Johnson | July 13

UNC has spent $467,406.49 on outside legal fees since June 2010, when the NCAA began investigating the University’s football program. Karen Moon, spokeswoman ...

University releases redacted documents related to 2010 NCAA investigation

By Elizabeth Johnson | July 11

UNC officials released more than 200 pages of heavily censored documents — most of which were related to the 2010 NCAA investigation — on Wednesday. The ...

Board announces AFAM review panel

By Vinayak Balasubramanian | June 14

The UNC system will review UNC-Chapel Hill’s investigation of academic fraud in the African and Afro-American Studies Department, System President Thomas ...

University to take back $12,000 from AFAM professor

By Elizabeth Johnson | June 11

UNC officials have asked Julius Nyang’oro — former chair of the African and Afro American studies department — to give $12,000 back to the University. ...

Board of Trustees to discuss AFAM fraud and faculty retention

By Matthew Cox | May 21

The full Board of Trustees will convene today for the first time since a report on academic fraud in the African and Afro-American studies department ...