Academic Fraud At UNC: Drescher: Baker Tilly retracts key finding in UNC report

John Drescher:

The accounting firm that worked with former Gov. Jim Martin in investigating academic fraud at UNC-Chapel Hill last week dropped one of their key findings.

Martin had said athletic officials and academic support officials raised questions with the Faculty Committee on Athletics about courses in one department that were supposed to be lecture courses but never met. But eight members of the faculty committee told The News & Observer's Dan Kane no such concerns had been raised.

After Kane's reporting was published, Martin doubled-down on his claim. He wrote a letter to The N&O defending his conclusion and posted similar comments on various Internet sites.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 8, 2013 1:03 AM
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