Julius Nyang'oro, author of Kikwete bio resigns from UNC

..Nashangaa hizi story za huyu Prof wa kibongo zinaibuka sasa.....maana huyu jamaa amekua kwenye haya matatizo tangu miaka ya 2011....pale ambapo alijiuzulu uenyekiti katika idara ya UNC-Chapel Hill..kule North Carolina University....na hata mshahara wake kupunguzwa.....huku akishushwa na kubaki mwalimu wa kawaida.....

..Kujiuzulu kwake kulihusishwwa na tuhuma za kutoa favors kwa wanafunzi wachezaji (footbal players)bila kuwa na mawasiliano ya moja kwa moja na wanafunzi hao...au waalimu wenzake idarani...jambo lilihusishwa na academic fraud....Mfano mzuri ukiwa pale alipompitishia andiko/chapisho(publication)mwanafunzi mmoja (Michael McAdoo)kwa kazi iliyohusishwa na plagiarism ya wazi.....jambo liligunduliwa baadae na court ya university na kupelekea mwanafunzi huyo kufelishwa kwa kupewa alama ya "F"..

..Sasa hivi uchunguzi dhidi ya huyu Prof wa kibongo unaonyesha amekua na mawasilino na idara ya michezo wanakotoka wanafunzi wake...huku ikimuonyesha akitoa favors kinamna kwa wale wanafunzi walioonyesha kushindwa kumaliza course zao....

My take....it seems baadhi ya ma professor wetu wa kibongo hawabadiliki hata pale wanapokua exposed....maana tabia hii wanayo sana hata baadhi ya ma professor walioko kwenye vyuo vikuu vyetu bongo.....haswa pale wanapotoa academic favors kwa wanafunzi wetu wa vyuo vikuu TZ...kwa malipo ya either fedha.....au hata ngono (kwa wanawake)....Sishangai kwa yanayotokea kwa huyu Prof wa JK.......

Sources: Mwaweza kumsoma jamaa na issue zake hapa chini:

1]UNC professor resigns academic chairman post | North Carolina | NewsObserver.com

2]North Carolina Academic Scandal: Documents Show Close Relationship Between Athletic Department and Professor | The Big Lead

3]No decision Monday on UNC academic scandal :: WRAL.com

4]Academic Advisers for Athletics Grapple With UNC Controversy - Players - The Chronicle of Higher Education
 
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ukiwapeleka walimu toka UDSM ni tabu tupo,wao hupenda kuongeza ongeza alama na madhara yake ndio hayo sasa
 
Huyu profesa alikuwa mzuri sana kwenye kazi zake. Huenda nia ya kutaka kuwasaidia hao wana michezo ndio imemcost.
Hivi kweli ni lazima mwanamichezo awe na degree ili kuingia kwenye hiyo michezo?

Anyway sheria ni msumeno na ni muhimu kufuata hasa kwa mgeni anayeishi kwenye nchi za watu na ambaye amefanikiwa kiasi hicho. Wenyeji wengi tu kwa vyovyote watataka kukuporomosha, hivyo kuwa makini na kufuata sheria ni muhimu mno. Someni hii habari nyingine kuhusu
prof. Nyang'oro.

Swept up in scandal

Former UNC student remembers a different Julius Nyang'oro




When Stephanie Buff Preston attended UNC, Julius Nyang'oro was one of the most difficult and challenging professors she had.
Because Nyang'oro's strict demeanor made the courses interesting, Preston, a 1991 graduate, decided to minor in African studies.
Two decades later, Preston said she can't believe the professor she once nominated for a teaching award played such a prominent role in the largest academic scandal in the University's history. "I'm not the kind of person that would just go up and nominate a teacher," Preston said. "I was so impressed and had such an incredible experience in his classroom, I thought I had to do something."
And based on Preston's experience, the idea that Nyang'oro would bend the rules for athletes was just not characteristic of the professor she knew.
"The athletes that were in my classes showed up," she said, mentioning that George Lynch and Rick Fox - who both became NBA players - were in one of her classes. "He kind of just raised the bar in his classroom. He expected a lot, which is why (the impropriety) is so surprising to hear."
Nyang'oro won the teaching award in 1991. Twenty years later, he was asked to retire after University officials discovered he had helped orchestrate the formation of academic courses taught irregularly or not at all, some of which had a disproportionately large number of student athletes enrolled.
Now, the questions of where the scandal originated, who is responsible and who is to blame are swirling around the heads of administrators and the UNC community.
Jay Smith, a history professor who has been at the forefront of the faculty discussion about restoring the school's academic integrity, said these questions are dividing UNC's faculty.
"How in the world did such a system fly under the radar?" he said.
"That's the question of the moment, isn't it?"
Were there any signs?
The Department of African and Afro-American Studies was just a curriculum when Trudier Harris was the chairwoman in 1991.
At that time, Harris said the curriculum underwent a period of massive expansion - acquiring more offices and conference rooms, forming an honors program and adding faculty positions.
When she left Nyang'oro at the helm of the soon-to-be department to be closer to her family, she felt he was qualified for the job.
"He was a brilliant man, he had done exceptional work," she said. "He was very much the kind of professor and scholar that one would want in any department."
Harris said her entire experience with the department was positive.
"We saw no signs of this, had no indication at all that this was on the horizon."
Harris said African and Afro-American studies departments across the country have been held to intense scrutiny, not just UNC.
"I think that AFAM departments throughout the United States suffer from questions about legitimacy and strength," she said. "They are always under microscopes."
Despite the stigma, Harris said these departments might face on a national level, signs of the UNC department's initial impropriety have yet to surface.
Who has the oversight?
As one of 69 department chairmen at UNC, Nyang'oro was responsible for overseeing all activity within the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, which currently includes 23 faculty members and lecturers.
Department chairmen report to an associate dean, who ultimately reports to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Chancellor Holden Thorp said this structure is necessary to administer such a large staff, but the University was not prepared for the system to fail.
"Department chairs obviously have a lot of ability to influence things, and we put a lot of trust in them," Thorp said. "The oversight system we had didn't account for this possibility."
But current restructuring of the system following Nyang'oro's departure are not the first changes to the hierarchy.
Gillian Cell, who was dean of the college from 1985 to 1991, wrote in an email that while she enjoyed being dean during her term, she is not sure she would take the position now.
"I enjoyed being dean because I did have contact with so many people," she wrote.
"I would not want to be dean now, given the current structure, because I would (be) out of contact with chairs and faculty."
Former Gov. Jim Martin, who is leading an independent review into the department, will attempt to answer questions about proper reporting of class activity with the assistance of consulting firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP.
Martin said he will also be interviewing faculty members to see what has been considered problematic within their own departments or others they have observed. He said he hopes this effort will give him some leads.
Are athletics to blame?
Some faculty members argue that athletes - who have been at the center of the scandal - are not to blame.
"Given all the pressure that is put on (athletes), the fact that they might be able to take advantage of an easy course should not surprise you," Smith said.
Thorp said the administration has been working on ways to strengthen the intersection of academics and athletics.
One example is the work of Karen Gil, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Bubba Cunningham, UNC's athletic director, who are working together to reform the relationship between their two departments.
"Areas of campus have gotten closer together to figure out a solution," Cunningham said.
"(Student athletes) have a full-time job, essentially, on top of being a student, so we have to provide an appropriate level of support."
Cunningham said they are working on several plans, such as reinforcing the difference between advisers and counselors.
Former athletics department academic counselor Carl Carey said carrying out the daily duties of an academic adviser to student athletes can be difficult.
"Academic counselors, we look at things like making sure their classes don't conflict with practice time," said Carey, who is also the agent of former UNC football and basketball star Julius Peppers.
"These are scholarship student athletes, and when they're on scholarship, they have team obligations they have to meet."
Last week, it was discovered that Peppers' transcript had been posted on a UNC website. It showed heavy participation in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies.
Carey said that although he never suggested easy classes for student athletes to take, the athletes do talk amongst themselves on the topic.
"Student athletes talk just like students talk … they know who's a good professor, who's not good, who's a hard grader, who's not a hard grader," he said.
"Do those discussions take place among athletes? Absolutely. So a lot of times when student athletes sit down, they already have an idea of what they want to do."
 
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Ukiwa mweusi kwwnye vyuo vikubwa kama UNC lqzima wakutafutie kashfa. Huyu profesa ni makini sana, matatizo kama haya yanamtokea mtu yeyote. Huyu ndiye mwalimu wa vijana mahiri kama Shabani Akalile pale Duke University 2004. Kwa hiyo kuna mazuri sana ya kuzungumzia kuhusu huyu prof. Nimesoma pale Ohio na ni mmoja wa maprof waliosifika sana katika jamii za Kitanzania
 
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[h=1]Swept up in scandal[/h][h=3]Former UNC student remembers a different Julius Nyang'oro[/h]When Stephanie Buff Preston attended UNC, Julius Nyang’oro was one of the most difficult and challenging professors she had.
Because Nyang’oro’s strict demeanor made the courses interesting, Preston, a 1991 graduate, decided to minor in African studies.
Two decades later, Preston said she can’t believe the professor she once nominated for a teaching award played such a prominent role in the largest academic scandal in the University’s history.“I’m not the kind of person that would just go up and nominate a teacher,” Preston said. “I was so impressed and had such an incredible experience in his classroom, I thought I had to do something.”
And based on Preston’s experience, the idea that Nyang’oro would bend the rules for athletes was just not characteristic of the professor she knew.
“The athletes that were in my classes showed up,” she said, mentioning that George Lynch and Rick Fox — who both became NBA players — were in one of her classes. “He kind of just raised the bar in his classroom. He expected a lot, which is why (the impropriety) is so surprising to hear.”
Nyang’oro won the teaching award in 1991. Twenty years later, he was asked to retire after University officials discovered he had helped orchestrate the formation of academic courses taught irregularly or not at all, some of which had a disproportionately large number of student athletes enrolled.
Now, the questions of where the scandal originated, who is responsible and who is to blame are swirling around the heads of administrators and the UNC community.
Jay Smith, a history professor who has been at the forefront of the faculty discussion about restoring the school’s academic integrity, said these questions are dividing UNC’s faculty.
“How in the world did such a system fly under the radar?” he said.
“That’s the question of the moment, isn’t it?”
Were there any signs?
The Department of African and Afro-American Studies was just a curriculum when Trudier Harris was the chairwoman in 1991.
At that time, Harris said the curriculum underwent a period of massive expansion — acquiring more offices and conference rooms, forming an honors program and adding faculty positions.
When she left Nyang’oro at the helm of the soon-to-be department to be closer to her family, she felt he was qualified for the job.
“He was a brilliant man, he had done exceptional work,” she said. “He was very much the kind of professor and scholar that one would want in any department.”
Harris said her entire experience with the department was positive.
“We saw no signs of this, had no indication at all that this was on the horizon.”
Harris said African and Afro-American studies departments across the country have been held to intense scrutiny, not just UNC.
“I think that AFAM departments throughout the United States suffer from questions about legitimacy and strength,” she said. “They are always under microscopes.”
Despite the stigma, Harris said these departments might face on a national level, signs of the UNCdepartment’s initial impropriety have yet to surface.
Who has the oversight?
As one of 69 department chairmen at UNC, Nyang’oro was responsible for overseeing all activity within the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, which currently includes 23 faculty members and lecturers.
Department chairmen report to an associate dean, who ultimately reports to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Chancellor Holden Thorp said this structure is necessary to administer such a large staff, but the University was not prepared for the system to fail.
“Department chairs obviously have a lot of ability to influence things, and we put a lot of trust in them,” Thorp said. “The oversight system we had didn’t account for this possibility.”
But current restructuring of the system following Nyang’oro’s departure are not the first changes to the hierarchy.
Gillian Cell, who was dean of the college from 1985 to 1991, wrote in an email that while she enjoyed being dean during her term, she is not sure she would take the position now.
“I enjoyed being dean because I did have contact with so many people,” she wrote.
“I would not want to be dean now, given the current structure, because I would (be) out of contact with chairs and faculty.”
Former Gov. Jim Martin, who is leading an independent review into the department, will attempt to answer questions about proper reporting of class activity with the assistance of consulting firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP.
Martin said he will also be interviewing faculty members to see what has been considered problematic within their own departments or others they have observed. He said he hopes this effort will give him some leads.
Are athletics to blame?
Some faculty members argue that athletes — who have been at the center of the scandal — are not to blame.
“Given all the pressure that is put on (athletes), the fact that they might be able to take advantage of an easy course should not surprise you,” Smith said.
Thorp said the administration has been working on ways to strengthen the intersection of academics and athletics.
One example is the work of Karen Gil, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Bubba Cunningham, UNC’s athletic director, who are working together to reform the relationship between their two departments.
“Areas of campus have gotten closer together to figure out a solution,” Cunningham said.
“(Student athletes) have a full-time job, essentially, on top of being a student, so we have to provide an appropriate level of support.”
Cunningham said they are working on several plans, such as reinforcing the difference between advisers and counselors.
Former athletics department academic counselor Carl Carey said carrying out the daily duties of an academic adviser to student athletes can be difficult.
“Academic counselors, we look at things like making sure their classes don’t conflict with practice time,” said Carey, who is also the agent of former UNC football and basketball star Julius Peppers.
“These are scholarship student athletes, and when they’re on scholarship, they have team obligations they have to meet.”
Last week, it was discovered that Peppers’ transcript had been posted on a UNC website. It showed heavy participation in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies.
Carey said that although he never suggested easy classes for student athletes to take, the athletes do talk amongst themselves on the topic.
“Student athletes talk just like students talk … they know who’s a good professor, who’s not good, who’s a hard grader, who’s not a hard grader,” he said.
“Do those discussions take place among athletes? Absolutely. So a lot of times when student athletes sit down, they already have an idea of what they want to do.”
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university@dailytarheel.com.


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Nyang'oro's handling of summer class at issue
Last summer, UNC-Chapel Hill professor Julius Nyang'oro received $12,000 to teach AFAM 280 – Blacks in North Carolina. The 19 students enrolled in the course were to learn about the state's legacy of slavery and racism, and how blacks fought to overcome it.
It is a course that typically involved classroom lectures, research papers and exams, according to syllabi from other UNC-CH professors who taught it. Nyang'oro, the department's chairman, was expected to teach it that way as well, university officials said.
But Nyang'oro did not hold classes or require any exams. His one-page syllabus said that because of the "compact nature" of the summer schedule, the students would spend that time largely on their own to find one or two black leaders in North Carolina to be the subject of a research paper due at the end of the session.
Now, university officials say they may seek action against Nyang'oro for not teaching a class as they had anticipated. The move comes after The News & Observer inquired about summer school payments to Nyang'oro.
"Through our review, we learned that Professor Nyang'oro provided instruction for a course in independent study format that had been approved to be taught in lecture format," said Nancy Davis, a UNC-CH spokeswoman. "Had the Summer School been aware that he was treating it as independent study, he would not have been paid for the course. We are reviewing appropriate next steps."
The summer school payment is the latest development in what appears to be the biggest case of academic fraud at UNC-CH in decades. An internal probe released late last week found 54 classes within the African studies department in which there was little or no indication of instruction. The probe also found at least 10 cases of unauthorized grade changes involving students who had not completed their course work or a final exam before the class ended.
Nyang'oro is the instructor of record for 45 of those classes, and university officials say they follow the same pattern: A course typically intended for classroom instruction was converted into an independent study format, which meant no classes and an expectation that a paper or other project would be produced at the end.
In the other nine classes, university officials could not determine who was supposed to teach them, and found no evidence of classroom instruction. Professors who were listed as instructors said their names were forged on grade rolls for the courses. The unauthorized grade changes also stem from those classes.
"All of that is deeply troubling," said Wade Hargrove, chairman of UNC-CH's board of trustees. "My concern at this point is making sure that measures are in place to prevent these things from ever happening again at this university."
The 45 classes represent nearly two-thirds of the 75 classes that Nyang'oro was listed as teaching from the summer of 2007 through the summer of 2011, the period that UNC academic officials examined.
Nyang'oro could not be reached. He resigned as chairman as the internal probe began, and when it was released, the university announced he was retiring effective July 1.
The summer pay is given to professors for teaching classes outside the normal spring and fall semesters. Professors have to get those courses approved by the university before teaching them. The summer sessions last roughly a month, so classes typically meet more often and for longer periods of time to cover the material.
Nyang'oro received $120,000 in summer school pay during the four-year period that was under review. University officials say the other eight summer school courses he taught were in a classroom setting and are not in question. They were all introductory courses offered by the African studies department. He was paid $8,400 for being a summer school administrator for three sessions, university records said.
The pay was in addition to his annual salary, which reached $171,000 last year before he stepped down as chairman. That knocked his pay down to $159,000.
The internal investigation said the only other person who may have been involved in the academic improprieties is Nyang'oro's former administrative secretary, Deborah Crowder, who retired in September 2009 after 30 years with the university. She made roughly $36,000 a year. She has not responded to repeated requests for comment.
The AFAM 280 class reopens questions as to whether additional investigation is needed. University officials last fall contacted law enforcement because of the forgery allegations. Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said the evidence in that respect did not appear to be enough to launch a criminal investigation, partly because there did not appear to be a financial motive, and there isn't much of a paper or electronic trail to follow.
"But," he said, "if there were some payments for a teacher teaching classes that were not taught, well, that would be a different issue."
Nyang'oro, 57, was the African studies department's first chairman, taking over in 1992 after teaching at the university the previous eight years. He has won two notable teaching awards during his tenure as chairman.
But questions regarding his teaching began to surface in July, when a paper written by Michael McAdoo, a football player caught up in a major NCAA probe into impermissible financial and academic benefits, became public. The paper on Swahili culture included numerous passages of plagiarism that weren't caught until rival N.C. State University fans reviewed it.
Nyang'oro was listed as the professor of that class, which was taught in the summer of 2009. In the internal probe's report, he said he did not teach the class, and suggested that a former "department manager," who was not identified, may have helped make that course and others available.
Nyang'oro did not catch the plagiarism, nor did NCAA or UNC officials. The internal probe identifies it as one of the nine in which there's no evidence of instruction.
Chancellor Holden Thorp initially stood by Nyang'oro after the plagiarism surfaced. But then a partial academic transcript, obtained by The News & Observer, of another football player caught up in the NCAA investigations raised more questions, prompting the internal investigation.
Marvin Austin's transcript showed that he took an upper level class taught by Nyang'oro in the summer of 2007. It was the first class Austin, a highly-prized recruit, took at the university. He received a B-plus. The internal probe now identifies it as one of the 45 classes in which Nyang'oro performed little or no instruction.
Football players and basketball players accounted for 39 percent of the 686 enrollments in the 54 suspect classes. Football players alone accounted for 36 percent of the enrollments. Non-student athletes accounted for 42 percent of the enrollments; the rest are student athletes in non-revenue-producing sports.
But university officials say student athletes and non-student athletes were treated equally when it came to the no-show classes and unauthorized grade changes. Figures released Thursday show four non-student athletes received them along with three football players and three other student athletes who are not in revenue-generating sports.
The investigation showed no motive for the improprieties, but did say the department was poorly run, which made it difficult to piece together what had happened. The university has set new policies and procedures to provide better oversight and record-keeping, as well as tougher academic standards for independent study classes.
University officials say there is no evidence of a concerted effort to help student athletes with easy grades so they could remain eligible to play. But Hargrove said there are legitimate concerns about the lack of recognition of a problem among athletic officials who are supposed to closely monitor student-athletes' academic progress.
"There is going to be a heightened level of oversight to the integrity of the academic requirements throughout the university and the academic performance of students, including athletes," he said.

Read more here: UNC-Chapel Hill might take action against Julius Nyang'oro | North Carolina | NewsObserver.com
Read more here: UNC-Chapel Hill might take action against Julius Nyang'oro | North Carolina | NewsObserver.com
Last summer, UNC-Chapel Hill professor Julius Nyang'oro received $12,000 to teach AFAM 280 – Blacks in North Carolina. The 19 students enrolled in the course were to learn about the state's legacy of slavery and racism, and how blacks fought to overcome it.
It is a course that typically involved classroom lectures, research papers and exams, according to syllabi from other UNC-CH professors who taught it. Nyang'oro, the department's chairman, was expected to teach it that way as well, university officials said.
But Nyang'oro did not hold classes or require any exams. His one-page syllabus said that because of the "compact nature" of the summer schedule, the students would spend that time largely on their own to find one or two black leaders in North Carolina to be the subject of a research paper due at the end of the session.
Now, university officials say they may seek action against Nyang'oro for not teaching a class as they had anticipated. The move comes after The News & Observer inquired about summer school payments to Nyang'oro.
"Through our review, we learned that Professor Nyang'oro provided instruction for a course in independent study format that had been approved to be taught in lecture format," said Nancy Davis, a UNC-CH spokeswoman. "Had the Summer School been aware that he was treating it as independent study, he would not have been paid for the course. We are reviewing appropriate next steps."
The summer school payment is the latest development in what appears to be the biggest case of academic fraud at UNC-CH in decades. An internal probe released late last week found 54 classes within the African studies department in which there was little or no indication of instruction. The probe also found at least 10 cases of unauthorized grade changes involving students who had not completed their course work or a final exam before the class ended.
Nyang'oro is the instructor of record for 45 of those classes, and university officials say they follow the same pattern: A course typically intended for classroom instruction was converted into an independent study format, which meant no classes and an expectation that a paper or other project would be produced at the end.
In the other nine classes, university officials could not determine who was supposed to teach them, and found no evidence of classroom instruction. Professors who were listed as instructors said their names were forged on grade rolls for the courses. The unauthorized grade changes also stem from those classes.
"All of that is deeply troubling," said Wade Hargrove, chairman of UNC-CH's board of trustees. "My concern at this point is making sure that measures are in place to prevent these things from ever happening again at this university."
The 45 classes represent nearly two-thirds of the 75 classes that Nyang'oro was listed as teaching from the summer of 2007 through the summer of 2011, the period that UNC academic officials examined.
Nyang'oro could not be reached. He resigned as chairman as the internal probe began, and when it was released, the university announced he was retiring effective July 1.
The summer pay is given to professors for teaching classes outside the normal spring and fall semesters. Professors have to get those courses approved by the university before teaching them. The summer sessions last roughly a month, so classes typically meet more often and for longer periods of time to cover the material.
Nyang'oro received $120,000 in summer school pay during the four-year period that was under review. University officials say the other eight summer school courses he taught were in a classroom setting and are not in question. They were all introductory courses offered by the African studies department. He was paid $8,400 for being a summer school administrator for three sessions, university records said.
The pay was in addition to his annual salary, which reached $171,000 last year before he stepped down as chairman. That knocked his pay down to $159,000.
The internal investigation said the only other person who may have been involved in the academic improprieties is Nyang'oro's former administrative secretary, Deborah Crowder, who retired in September 2009 after 30 years with the university. She made roughly $36,000 a year. She has not responded to repeated requests for comment.
The AFAM 280 class reopens questions as to whether additional investigation is needed. University officials last fall contacted law enforcement because of the forgery allegations. Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said the evidence in that respect did not appear to be enough to launch a criminal investigation, partly because there did not appear to be a financial motive, and there isn't much of a paper or electronic trail to follow.
"But," he said, "if there were some payments for a teacher teaching classes that were not taught, well, that would be a different issue."
Nyang'oro, 57, was the African studies department's first chairman, taking over in 1992 after teaching at the university the previous eight years. He has won two notable teaching awards during his tenure as chairman.
But questions regarding his teaching began to surface in July, when a paper written by Michael McAdoo, a football player caught up in a major NCAA probe into impermissible financial and academic benefits, became public. The paper on Swahili culture included numerous passages of plagiarism that weren't caught until rival N.C. State University fans reviewed it.
Nyang'oro was listed as the professor of that class, which was taught in the summer of 2009. In the internal probe's report, he said he did not teach the class, and suggested that a former "department manager," who was not identified, may have helped make that course and others available.
Nyang'oro did not catch the plagiarism, nor did NCAA or UNC officials. The internal probe identifies it as one of the nine in which there's no evidence of instruction.
Chancellor Holden Thorp initially stood by Nyang'oro after the plagiarism surfaced. But then a partial academic transcript, obtained by The News & Observer, of another football player caught up in the NCAA investigations raised more questions, prompting the internal investigation.
Marvin Austin's transcript showed that he took an upper level class taught by Nyang'oro in the summer of 2007. It was the first class Austin, a highly-prized recruit, took at the university. He received a B-plus. The internal probe now identifies it as one of the 45 classes in which Nyang'oro performed little or no instruction.
Football players and basketball players accounted for 39 percent of the 686 enrollments in the 54 suspect classes. Football players alone accounted for 36 percent of the enrollments. Non-student athletes accounted for 42 percent of the enrollments; the rest are student athletes in non-revenue-producing sports.
But university officials say student athletes and non-student athletes were treated equally when it came to the no-show classes and unauthorized grade changes. Figures released Thursday show four non-student athletes received them along with three football players and three other student athletes who are not in revenue-generating sports.
The investigation showed no motive for the improprieties, but did say the department was poorly run, which made it difficult to piece together what had happened. The university has set new policies and procedures to provide better oversight and record-keeping, as well as tougher academic standards for independent study classes.
University officials say there is no evidence of a concerted effort to help student athletes with easy grades so they could remain eligible to play. But Hargrove said there are legitimate concerns about the lack of recognition of a problem among athletic officials who are supposed to closely monitor student-athletes' academic progress.
"There is going to be a heightened level of oversight to the integrity of the academic requirements throughout the university and the academic performance of students, including athletes," he said.

Read more here: UNC-Chapel Hill might take action against Julius Nyang'oro | North Carolina | NewsObserver.com
 
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