Like many stated...it wasn't just AFAM. Jan Boxill was implicated in the Wainsten report...
The revelations in University out of the maelstrom of academic impropriety.
Boxill was the the chairwoman of the faculty from April 2011 to June 2014 after serving as women's basketball academic counselor.
Boxill didn't return seven calls for comment. Her employment status as a professor in the UNC Department of Philosophy and the director of the Parr Center for Ethics is unknown. She is no longer listed as director on the center's website.
Now today we get this...
Emails show Boxill, a philosophy professor, offered 160 independent study courses between spring 2004 and spring 2012, according to records obtained by The Daily Tar Heel.
Wainstein's report found employees in the African and Afro-American studies department offered fake paper courses for 18 years - and Boxill encouraged athletes to take the classes. But the Wainstein report, like every report on UNC's academic-athletic scandal, has found the academic irregularities were limited to the African and Afro-American studies department.
But emails released as supplementary documents with the Wainstein report show athletes were also steered to independent study courses Boxill taught. The philosophy professor and former director of the Parr Center for Ethics did not respond to requests for comment for this story.
Boxill was embedded in UNC and its athletics program. A master lecturer in the philosophy department, she taught a long-standing class on sports ethics and brought in regular guest speakers like men's basketball coach Dean Smith. As faculty chairwoman, she attended regular meetings with former Chancellor Holden Thorp's administration.
"Why would a student take an independent study?" Lange said. "It's only for extraordinarily well-qualified students for whom the course material is too elementary."
Public records show Boxill would sometimes offer multiple students independent study courses each semester; for example, in spring 2005 she taught 20. UNC's Public Records Office would not distinguish how many students enrolled in Boxill's independent studies were student-athletes.
The emails released by Wainstein show some student-athletes were enrolled and steered to her courses - but his report doesn't mention it.
In one case, Crowder referred a student to Boxill for an independent study course after the African and Afro-American studies department was no longer able to provide them - but that wasn't the only instance.
In a 2006 email to Deborah Crowder, the secretary in the African and Afro-American studies department who Wainstein showed was largely responsible for the creation of the paper courses, football counselor Cynthia Reynolds discussed registering her players for new classes.
"Nice call on the Phil 30 (Boxill) correspondence course last semester," the email said. "Didn't know Jan was doing those."
In emails from later that year, Reynolds asked Boxill to take on a student for an independent study on sports ethics.
In another case, women's soccer counselor Brent Blanton referred a student to Boxill who was looking for an independent study. In an email to Blanton, the student said she didn't care if the course was "basket weaving."
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The revelations in University out of the maelstrom of academic impropriety.
Boxill was the the chairwoman of the faculty from April 2011 to June 2014 after serving as women's basketball academic counselor.
Boxill didn't return seven calls for comment. Her employment status as a professor in the UNC Department of Philosophy and the director of the Parr Center for Ethics is unknown. She is no longer listed as director on the center's website.
Now today we get this...
Emails show Boxill, a philosophy professor, offered 160 independent study courses between spring 2004 and spring 2012, according to records obtained by The Daily Tar Heel.
Wainstein's report found employees in the African and Afro-American studies department offered fake paper courses for 18 years - and Boxill encouraged athletes to take the classes. But the Wainstein report, like every report on UNC's academic-athletic scandal, has found the academic irregularities were limited to the African and Afro-American studies department.
But emails released as supplementary documents with the Wainstein report show athletes were also steered to independent study courses Boxill taught. The philosophy professor and former director of the Parr Center for Ethics did not respond to requests for comment for this story.
Boxill was embedded in UNC and its athletics program. A master lecturer in the philosophy department, she taught a long-standing class on sports ethics and brought in regular guest speakers like men's basketball coach Dean Smith. As faculty chairwoman, she attended regular meetings with former Chancellor Holden Thorp's administration.
"Why would a student take an independent study?" Lange said. "It's only for extraordinarily well-qualified students for whom the course material is too elementary."
Public records show Boxill would sometimes offer multiple students independent study courses each semester; for example, in spring 2005 she taught 20. UNC's Public Records Office would not distinguish how many students enrolled in Boxill's independent studies were student-athletes.
The emails released by Wainstein show some student-athletes were enrolled and steered to her courses - but his report doesn't mention it.
In one case, Crowder referred a student to Boxill for an independent study course after the African and Afro-American studies department was no longer able to provide them - but that wasn't the only instance.
In a 2006 email to Deborah Crowder, the secretary in the African and Afro-American studies department who Wainstein showed was largely responsible for the creation of the paper courses, football counselor Cynthia Reynolds discussed registering her players for new classes.
"Nice call on the Phil 30 (Boxill) correspondence course last semester," the email said. "Didn't know Jan was doing those."
In emails from later that year, Reynolds asked Boxill to take on a student for an independent study on sports ethics.
In another case, women's soccer counselor Brent Blanton referred a student to Boxill who was looking for an independent study. In an email to Blanton, the student said she didn't care if the course was "basket weaving."
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