| Businessweek |
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said it will discipline nine more employees for an academic fraud that spanned 18 years and made it easier for student athletes to maintain eligibility to play.
The school, which has won five national basketball championships, released the results today of an independent investigation into the fraud in which 3,100 students took so-called "paper classes" -- with no faculty involvement or class attendance. Almost half of the students were athletes.
"The bad actions of a few and the inaction of others failed the university's students, faculty and alumni and undermined the institution as a whole," Chancellor Carol Folt said in a statement. The report found that the wrongdoing "lasted much longer and affected more students than previously known," she said.
