Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Fake Classes for Student Athletes at UNC
A scathing report out this week details a 20-year cheating scandal at the University of North Carolina. Thousands of students have taken fake classes in the African-American studies department. Many of those students were athletes, basketball and football players who couldn’t make the grades required to stay on their teams.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readA scathing report out this week details a 20-year cheating scandal at the University of North Carolina. Thousands of students have taken fake classes in the African-American studies department. Many of those students were athletes, basketball and football players who couldn’t make the grades required to stay on their teams. We hear from one journalist who’s been covering the story as it’s unfolded throughout the year.
