A former football player at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has filed a federal lawsuit against the university, saying it failed to provide him and other athletes with a quality education by steering them toward sham classes that never met and had no instruction, the Associated Press reports.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, N.C., the former player, Michael McAdoo, says that the university promised him a good education but ultimately guided him and other athletes into a "shadow curriculum" of bogus courses in African-American studies, the curriculum at the heart of a long-running scandal over academic fraud at Chapel Hill. The latest investigation of that scandal, led by Kenneth L. Wainstein, a former federal prosecutor, found that more than 3,000 students—almost half of them athletes—had enrolled in and received artificially high grades for no-show classes in the African and Afro-American studies department.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/former-football-player-sues-u-of-north-carolina-over-sham-courses/89299