Part of an email to the UNC community from Andrew Powell, current Student Body President at UNC, on the recent release of the Wainstein Report detailing corruption in some segments of the UNC academic community: The report showed there were over 3,000 instances of students enrolling in paper classes. These were fraudulent courses with no direct faculty involvement and grading practices completely unrelated to the quality of student work. This practice was and is absolutely unacceptable. Some in the media have been quick to use the 3,000+ number as an indictment of us as a student body. But I believe the context is also important: over the same period there were more than three million class enrollments at UNC. 9,000 illegitimate credit hours out of over 9,000,000 total hours do not define our student body or our University. The paper class scheme started before some of us were even born and ended before many of us enrolled as students. Many reforms have already been implemented, though there is still work to be done and more changes on the way. No one should ever have any reason to question the legitimacy of the education received by any student – athlete or non-athlete – at Carolina. Well Said! Go Heels!!!
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:25:05 +0000
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