Jay Smith is a history professor at the University of North Carolina. And among his spring course offerings is a class with a syllabus that’s playing out in real time. Smith teaches “Big-Time College Sports and the Rights of Athletes, 1956 – present.”
At UNC this fall, the present part of that course has rarely been so compelling. UNC students recently returned to campus without the school requiring them to be tested for COVID-19. On Monday, the school announced in the wake of at least four clusters of positive tests that it was ending on-campus instruction for the semester.