(REUTERS) — A report into an academic fraud scandal at the University of North Carolina released on Wednesday found that for 18 years two academic advisers ran a program of fake classes that helped many athletes at the school remain eligible to play sports.
The report does not incriminate any coaches or athletic administrators in the scheme, carried out by two people within the African and Afro-American Studies department.
The “irregular classes,” at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1993 to 2011, had no class attendance or faculty involvement, according to the independent investigation conducted by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein.
