The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Emma Kerr
May 3, 2018
A professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and prominent critic of the administration has long accused officials there of attempting to cancel his course, “Big-Time College Sports and the Rights of Athletes.” Now senior administrators have rejected a faculty grievance committee’s report that says administrators improperly interfered, The News & Observer reports.
Jay Smith, a history professor, has been an outspoken critic of the university since news began to break that university employees had created a system in which athletes were funnelled through fake courses in order to stay eligible to play. He co-wrote a book about the scandal with a former UNC employee who blew the whistle on the case.
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