Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into the UNC African and Afro-American Studies program for instances of academic fraud.
UNC did an internal review of the department and in a report released this month said they found little to no indication of instruction actually taking place for 54 classes within the program. The review also discovered instances of professors’ signatures being forged and unauthorized grade changes.
The department has recently been the center of attention in the media following a plagiarism scandal involving UNC football players and former department chair Julius Nyang’oro. Nyang’oro resigned as department chair last year and will retire from UNC on July 1. In the review, UNC found that many of the possible instances of academic fraud involved Nyang’oro.