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I'm hoping for the best.
The accreditation agency is actually the proper venue for this investigation, and they should be harsh. Especially considering the way they were waltzed around during their initial investigation.
Losing accreditation is a huge deal, even if the incoming students are a bit too stupid to understand the implications. For example: Credits earned from an unaccredited institution are not transferrable. So anyone planning on going to grad school is in for a rude shock when they find that one year of their studies simply did not happen. And if someone was planning on employment in a particular field, predicated upon their having earned a degree in that field, they, too are in for a rude shock. (It happened to a friend at UConn when their School of Forestry lost its accreditation many years back.)
On the NCAA side: It s my understanding unaccredited institutions are not eligible for participation in any NCAA sports. So to lose ones accreditation is to have earned "the death penalty", but for all sports! One could only speculate on what the implications of this would be to the ACC and its sports schedules. I guess the games would be just blanked. Which begs the question: "If the games don't count, why are we playing them?"
I am hopeful that this gets addressed, properly. UNC has certainly earned it, even if their student body is about to get gut punched over it.
As far as accreditation, though, no student is going to lose credits for transfer if a school loses its accreditation. They would allow transfers with the credits that have already been earned. They're not going to zap those credits after the fact.
I don't disagree with that. But, if, halfway through junior year they lose accreditation.....credits earned that semester/year would be as though they never happened.
And you are (most unfortunately) probably correct about the accrediting agency not having the billiards necessary to pull their ticket.....no matter how justly deserved.
Which, reasonably, would call their entire reason for being into question.
The accreditation group will put them on some sort of probation .
This non-penalty will allow the NCAA to waive jurisdiction.
In short UNC will skate.
Welcome to the real world.
Accreditation is part of the fraud. Someone is waiting for a big check to clear or a carpet big enough to sweep this under. Hilary goes to Sing Sing before UNC loses accreditation.
Were talking NCAA here. You can't actually believe that have a universally applied standard of conduct for member institutions. When your objective is simply to find a way not to punish as opposed to find anyway to punish you grasp at any convenient loophole available to achieve either goal.UNC is already on probation, and they probably have already completed what they need to do to get off probation. Any penalties that an institution receives from an accrediting agency usually isn't punitive. Further, egregious violations of accreditation standards are typically not NCAA violations and vice versa. Obviously, in this case there was overlap. But if the NCAA decides not to punish UNC, they will have to come up with an excuse that has nothing to do with accreditation. When UNC (probably) gets off probation from the accreditation agency this summer, it simply means they feel UNC corrected the problems that existed. It does not mean that egregious problems (for an an incredibly long time) did not exist at UNC.
Were talking NCAA here. You can't actually believe that have a universally applied standard of conduct for member institutions. When your objective is simply to find a way not to punish as opposed to find anyway to punish you grasp at any convenient loophole available to achieve either goal.