HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Accrediting Body Places University of North Carolina On Probation. “The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will not lose accreditation over the academic fraud that occurred there, but it will face one year of probation, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges announced Thursday. In October, the university released a detailed report about widespread and long-lasting academic fraud at the university. For 20 years, some employees at the university knowingly steered about 1,500 athletes toward no-show courses that never met and were not taught by any faculty members, and in which the only work required was a single research paper that received a high grade no matter the content.”

It wasn’t just athletes who took these classes, though. And despite efforts to contain this by treating it as an athletic scandal, it’s an academic scandal, through and through.