An independent investigator found evidence directly tying years of no-show classes at the University of North Carolina to a scheme that helped hundreds of athletes — particularly football and men’s basketball players — raise their grades and stay eligible over an 18-year period, according to a report released Wednesday.
Kenneth Wainstein, a former U.S. Attorney and general counsel to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, pinned most of the wrongdoing on Deborah Crowder, a longtime secretary who managed the African and Afro-American Studies Department, and Julius Nyang’oro, who became chair of curriculum for the department in 1992.
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