UNC-Chapel Hill’s accrediting body will review the findings of the NCAA report that last week issued no punishment against the university for its long-running athletic and academic scandal.
Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, said in an email that the Georgia-based accrediting agency will examine the NCAA’s findings.
“We will consider the information under our unsolicited information policy,” Wheelan wrote in an email in response to a question from a News & Observer reporter. “It will be reviewed to determine if the institution is out of compliance with any of our Principles of Accreditation.