UNC Officials Announce New Inquiry Into Academic-Fraud Scandal

By Nick DeSantis. The president of the University of North Carolina system and the chancellor of the system’s Chapel Hill campus on Friday announced that they had hired an independent lawyer to conduct another inquiry into Chapel Hill’s academic-fraud scandal, the News & Observer reported. Late last year the former chairman of Chapel Hill’s department of African and Afro-American studies was indicted in connection with allegations that he had accepted money for a class he did not teach. The former chairman, Julius Nyang’oro, and a former department manager were placed at the center of the scandal in previous investigations, one of which found that suspect courses in the department dated as far back as 1997. More...