In the five years since a football player’s transcript revealed an 18-year scheme of bogus classes, UNC-Chapel Hill has ushered in dozens of reforms that will make it virtually impossible for anyone to create such classes again.
Professors are limited to teaching two independent studies per semester. Where faculty members were once only scrutinized for teaching too few classes, they are now being checked for offering too many. Every so often, an academic administrator pokes his or her nose in a classroom to make sure it’s meeting.
UNC has a new director for “ethics education and policy management.