UNC professor reportedly writing book about academic scandal at university Posted Jan 6, 2014 UNC history professor Jay Smith is writing a book about how "the business of sports undermines the mission of education," referring specifically to what has happened at UNC the past few years. Smith specializes in 17th- and 18th-century French history and "has the best sort of self-interested motivation for making sense of what has happened on his campus: He’s writing a book." (Greensboro News & Record)