For nearly five years, UNC-Chapel Hill has refused to make public what former academic chairman Julius Nyang’oro told university and NCAA investigators about bogus classes in his department that had no instruction and offered a high grade upon completion of a paper.
Not so with the NCAA’s recent interview with Deborah Crowder, who was Nyang’oro’s assistant. Two weeks after Crowder was interviewed for a full day, the university in late May made Crowder’s 117-page transcript public as part of its response to the enforcement agency’s allegations of multiple major violations.
Crowder had created and graded many of the classes, despite not being a faculty member and having no expertise in African and Afro-American studies.