(Reuters) - The University of North Carolina was sanctioned on Thursday by its accrediting commission, which gave it a 12-month probation after a review into the school's academic fraud scandal, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.
The Chapel Hill school received the most serious sanction available from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, according to the newspaper, reporting from the group's board meeting Portsmouth, Virginia.
The university was found to have violated seven standards that included integrity, control of intercollegiate athletics and academic freedom, WRAL-TV reported.
The probation comes a week after the NCAA alleged that the university committed serious academic fraud violations between 2002 and 2011, which included a lack of institutional control over staff members who arranged improper benefits for student-athletes.