CHAPEL HILL
UNC-Chapel Hill has outlined in an online report guidelines to clarify proper communication among coaches, advisers and faculty about athletes’ grades and academic progress.
The guidelines prohibit coaches from initiating contact with faculty members about an athletes’ grades and academic performance. They also prohibit faculty members from asking advisers about what grade an athlete would need to maintain eligibility. Advisers also aren’t allowed to offer that information.
The guidelines are part of a broad website the university launched on Wednesday after a two-year project that attempted, UNC wrote in an open letter, to “document and assess all academic processes that affect student-athletes from the time that they are recruited until after they graduate.