Unpunishable Academic Fraud-

	Kerri P. on LieStoppers Jun 10 2012, 06:30 AM http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/11189301/ UNC asks professor to repay $12K for course CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina wants a professor at the center of an academic fraud probe to repay thousands of dollars for teaching a course inappropriately. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp told trustees Friday that Julius Nyang'oro was asked to repay $12,000 for teaching a 2011 summer course as an independent study rather than a lecture. Nyang'oro resigned in August as chairman of the school's African and Afro-American Studies program, which was at the center of an investigation into academic fraud involving Tar Heel football players. A university report found 54 department classes had little or no indication of instruction and at least 10 cases of unauthorized grade changes for students who didn't do all the work. The State Bureau of Investigation is determining whether any criminal violations occurred. Payback's RESPONSE TO KERRI'S POSTING: This is surely the only case of "academic fraud" in the history of American education. Davidson could never have perpetrated "academic fraud" with her 1994 New Melville issue of AMERICAN LITERATURE ("We already have full-scale biographies of Melville"--this when no biographer had yet published on the basis of the great 1983 trove of family documents). Brodhead could never have perpetrated "academic fraud" in the New York TIMES on 23 June 2002 when he declared that only Hershel Parker alone in his "black hole" had ever imagined there was something Melville wrote called POEMS and tried to publish in 1860. There surely could be no "academic fraud" in writing a book called THE SCHOOL OF HAWTHORNE without taking a roll call to see who occupied the seats in the classroom. Oh no! "Academic fraud" has to be restricted to something momentous like deciding to teach a class out of the classroom as independent study. It could not consist of going into a classroom time after time while mouthing New Critical and Politically Correct idiocies.