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Round Two: NCAA investigating academic fraud at UNC again

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Posted by    Friday, July 4, 2014 at 2:00pm

Classes, what classes?

Once again, the NCAA is investigating the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for various forms of academic fraud.

In 2012, several investigations yielded evidence that from 2007 to 2011 classes, grades, faculty signatures were falsified and covered up in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies to benefit football...

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Chinese students applying to US colleges caught cheating

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Posted by    Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 2:00pm

While students from China make up nearly one-third of all foreign students studying in the United States according to data compiled by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, some colleges and education institutions allege more and more Chinese applicants are committing various forms of fraud on...

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Corinthian College Collapse would be Largest in History of the For-Profit Education Industry

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Posted by    Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at 8:00am

One of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains, Corinthian Colleges, stands to lose federal funding due to allegations that it cooked its books on job placement figures. Financial aid and grants courtesy of the federal government are the lifelines of Corinthian and companies like it.

Losing the government dollars would spell its...

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Beer Bowl: More colleges in search of revenue turn to alcohol sales at sports games

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Posted by    Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 11:00am

It seems more and more colleges across the country have finally put one-and-one together: sports and alcohol.

In spite of safety and image concerns, colleges in dire need of additional revenues to pay for their ever-expanding budgets are turning to beer to shore up their bottom lines.

Currently, the NCAA 

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