UNC Business & AdministrationComplete coverage of North Carolina Business & Administration news on Tar Heel Times.UNC academic advisor Mary Willingham stepping down
Mary Willingham, an academic adviser at UNC, says she will leave the university after finishing her classes this semester. Willingham was the subject of national...
Monday April 21, 2014My Job Is to Educate, Not to Cheer
When you see me on the sideline or in the stands cheering for my students, understand that I am indeed cheering for students. After the...
Sunday April 20, 2014"Mary Willingham's Credibility Is Collapsing”
Bradley Bethel is the author of Coaching the Mind: Putting the Student in Student-Athlete. He is listed as a learning specialist under student-athlete services of...
Friday April 18, 2014UNC keeps tabs on classes with clusters of athletes
Ever since fraudulent classes were discovered in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, all eyes have been on not only professors and their syllabuses,...
Friday April 18, 2014Faculty Athletics Committee statement on student privacy
The Faculty Athletics Committee is aware of a Twitter Communication (tweet) released on April 6, 2014 which publicly refers to specific academic information regarding specific...
Thursday April 17, 2014Mary Willingham’s data offers limited view
For months, the national media has had a field day with the claims made by Mary Willingham that 60 percent of UNC’s athletes read below...
Wednesday April 16, 2014Can UNC Expect a Return Visit From the NCAA?
The latest Kane Klassic raises the hopes of ABCers everywhere that information from Deborah Crowder may bring the NCAA back to campus. But history and...
Wednesday April 16, 2014What Is Missing from Paper Class Inc.?
No one can doubt any longer that the Paper Class Inc. campaign is scarce on academic discourse, transparency, and professional ethics. Considering Mary Willingham’s dishonesty...
Wednesday April 16, 2014How is UNC’s brand doing after years of scandal?
Robert Morse, director of data research at U.S. News and World Report, said he does not think the recent scandals have affected North Carolina’s undergraduate...
Wednesday April 16, 2014Mary Willingham's Response to UNC’s Independent Evaluation of Research
To avoid technical discussion and to get right to the heart of the matter, I will simply say that the three outside experts who conducted...
Wednesday April 16, 2014UNC investigator meets with Mary Willingham
The reading specialist who questioned the literacy level of athletes who were admitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has met with...
Tuesday April 15, 2014Video: Bubba Cunningham - UNC Athletics Update
Jones Angell and North Carolina Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham sit down to discuss current topics within the UNC Athletics Department...
Tuesday April 15, 2014North Carolina academic scandal grossly exaggerated
Mary Willingham, a learning specialist at UNC, researched the reading levels of Tar Heel football and basketball players and claimed to CNN that she found...
Tuesday April 15, 2014How One Woman’s Inflated Statistics and Embellished Recollections Made Her Famous
With her statistics disproven and her experience called into question, Mary Willingham has no more support for her invectives against UNC. She has spoken of...
Monday April 14, 2014Breaking Down the Independent Review of Mary Willingham's Data
UNC has released the findings from a review of Mary Willingham's data and claim regarding student-athlete reading levels at the school. The review, which was...
Sunday April 13, 2014Experts refute claims by Mary Willingham; she rips their report
Three experts hired by UNC to investigate claims of low literacy levels for Tar Heel athletes found no evidence to support those claims, UNC announced...
Friday April 11, 2014Outside experts find data set doesn’t support claims about reading levels of student-athletes
Outside experts found no evidence to support public claims about widespread low literacy levels of a group of first-year University of North Carolina at Chapel...
Friday April 11, 2014Bucky Brooks: I'm A Tar Heel
I’m a Tar Heel. I’m a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. I’m also an African-American athlete who earned five letters with...
Friday April 11, 2014We Have Our Own Party: Declining Paper Class Inc.’s Invitation
In his response to my essay, Jay Smith extended a spurious invitation to “climb on board the reform bandwagon.” A bandwagon that is going somewhere...
Thursday April 10, 2014Chansky: Irresponsible Motives
What are Mary Willingham’s real motives these days? Is she so deep into it now that she has to keep justifying her original actions, which...
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