Bustle said in a report that a former professor has exposed the business of allowing college athletes to get exceptional grades or pass 'non-existent' classes with flying colors in exchange of poorly-made coursework.
The University of North Carolina was found to be running an academic corruption to ensure athletes are focused on winning lucrative basketball and football championships, Businessweek said in a report. The revelations were also supported by former UNC professor Mary Willingham, who publicly presented a most distressing example of how tragic a 'paper class system' is.
ESPN's "Outside the Lines" revealed on Tuesday how UNC has been creating nonexistent course to ensure their student athletes will remain eligible to play sports. The 'paper class system' was a form of cheating to a degree, said Bustle, as it undermines the efforts of not only other student-athletes, but paying students who have worked hard to get grades that they have supposedly earned.
Willingham told ESPN that the "independent studies" struggling student-athletes had enrolled on require no attendance and only requires them to write a paper.
The paper, was in fact, an essay about a fictional conversation between activist Rosa Parks and a bus driver, Bustle said. The student who wrote the essay got an A- for the effort, PolicyMic said.
Former UNC athlete Duenta Williams admitted in the ESPN segment that he too, was able to benefit from the "paper class system," and supported Willingham's claim that the National Collegiate Athletic Association had turned a blind eye to the academic corruption.
UNC provost and executive vice chancellor James Dean personally visited the headquarters of Bloomberg to not only make a public apology with the news outlet's help, but to distance themselves from the unethical academic practice at the university. Dean and boss Carol Folt had promised to see changes that would effectively discontinue and prevent any form of academic corruption at UNC.
