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Message: [QUOTE="knicks07, post: 2347782, member: 5703"] All Universities and colleges are subject to a major academic accrediting body for academic accreditation. There are 7 of those, by region, Syracuse belongs to Middle States. UNC belongs to Southern Assoc of Colleges and School (SACS). SACS performed an investigation a couple of years ago and hit UNC with 12 months probation, including integrity, program content, control of athletics, academic support services. UNC is already off probation, done and over for them. So while it seemed like a big deal, it really had little effect. They are not going to shut down a major research University as well as enter battle with state legislature of NC over a small set of classes relative to total course offerings. Just funny that the NCAA charged UNC with lack of academic control while SACS said UNC lost control of Athletics. Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, said in [URL='http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article179169576.html#']an email[/URL] that there is no new evidence. “We acted two years ago,” she wrote in an email Monday. “Nothing new has occurred for us to do anything else.” Over the weekend, Wheelan said that the [URL='http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article179169576.html#']commission[/URL] would review the NCAA report to “determine if the institution is out of compliance with any of our Principles of Accreditation. If we find that they are, we will investigate.” That review is apparently complete and no action will be taken. SACS last year removed the university from probationary status, saying it had put safeguards in place to prevent such a situation from happening again. The university had mounted an effort to institute changes and document them for the accrediting body. In 2012, after the scandal first arose, the organization required UNC to undergo extensive monitoring. A second review was launched in 2014, after the scope of the academic misconduct was revealed in the Wainstein Report, by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein. That ultimately led to the probation. The university is currently already undergoing its regular 10-year review by the accreditor. [/QUOTE]

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