Accrediting agency wants clear action from UNC - Jane Stancill and Dan Kane, News Observer

In a strongly worded notice from its accrediting agency, UNC-Chapel Hill has been told that it must ensure the legitimacy of degrees awarded to an unknown number of graduates who took bogus classes going back to the 1990s. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges stopped short of suggesting that the degrees be voided. But the university “did not provide sufficient evidence that it had addressed the breaches of academic integrity” of degrees to students who took irregular African and Afro-American studies courses, wrote Belle Wheelan, SACS president, in a Jan. 15 letter to UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp. http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/02/12/2675141/accrediting-agency-wants-clear.html