Last summer, UNC-Chapel Hill professor Julius Nyangoro received $12,000 to teach AFAM 280 Blacks in North Carolina. The 19 students enrolled in the course were to learn about the states legacy of slavery and racism, and how blacks fought to overcome it.
It is a course that typically involved classroom lectures, research papers and exams, according to syllabi from other UNC-CH professors who taught it. Nyangoro, the departments chairman, was expected to teach it that way as well, university officials said.
But Nyangoro did not hold classes or require any exams. His one-page syllabus said that because of the compact nature of the summer schedule, the students would spend that time largely on their own to find one or two black leaders in North Carolina to be the subject of a research paper due at the end of the session.
UPDATE: The secretary:
Crowder had close ties to the basketball team. She has been in a longtime relationship with a former basketball player, and Martins investigation found that in 2008, she had received $100,000 and some Hummel figurines from the estate of the father of a close friend who was the former academic adviser to basketball players until shortly before her death in 2004.
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