Dive Brief:

• The NCAA is reopening an investigation of the athletics program at the University of North Carolina related to the grade inflation allegations against the school’s African and Afro-American Studies Department.
• According to the NCAA, more people with information about the scandal and others who were uncooperative in the past might now be willing to talk.
• The African/Afro-American department has been accused of making hundreds of grade changes for athletes from 1997 to 2011.

Dive Insight:

The New York Times calls UNC’s grade changing scheme “one of the largest scandals in college sports.” Two of the new sources for the NCAA investigation may be Julius Nyang’oro, former professor and African/Afro-American department chairman, and Debra Crowder, former manager of the department. Nyang’oro and Crowder have been cooperating with an independent investigation of the scandal, commissioned by the university. Kenneth Wainstein, the leader of the inquiry, is another potential source for NCAA investigators.