North Carolina Academic Adviser Emerges as a Whistleblower

Willingham said that she lodged complaints at least two years before the academic fraud became public, including raising concerns about plagiarism and tutors doing work for the athletes.

According to Willingham:

"Members of the men’s basketball team took no-show classes until the fall semester of 2009, when the team was assigned a new academic counselor. The new counselor was appalled to learn of the classes, and wanted no part of them. University records show the enrollments stopped that semester for basketball players, while they continued for football players."

"“Last month, The N&O questioned men’s basketball coach Roy Williams as to why his players stopped enrolling in no-show classes by the fall of 2009. Williams offered no explanation other than a suggestion that players may have decided on their own not to take them.”"