((HT: WRALSportsfan.com))
Mary Willingham has seven years of research that shows that UNC athletes in football and basketball are way behind their peers when it comes to reading levels. 60-percent, from 2003 to 2010 according to Willingham, were at elementary school levels and another 10-percent were at a third-grade level.
For whatever reason, the school is now telling Willingham that she has to stop doing her job because, according to WRAL-TV in Raleigh: "she can't continue to use data with information that could identify the subjects until she applies to the university's review board that governs human research."
Willingham said she's going to re-apply...
And the HQ will love to see what explanation-slash-excuse the school gives when they deny her privileges on the rebound...
Here's the Sara Ganim piece that seems to have started the furor-and-a-half...
((HT: CNN))
Chancellor Sarah Folt has challenged Willingham's numbers, but has issued an open letter to anyone willing to read saying that she cares:
"I take these claims very seriously, but we have been unable to reconcile these claims with either our own facts or with those data currently being cited as the source for the claims. Moreover, the data presented in the media do not match up with those data gathered by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions."
"Only two of the 321 student-athletes admitted in 2012 and 2013 fell below the SAT and ACT levels that were cited in a recent CNN report as the threshold for reading levels for first-year students. And those two students are in good academic standing."
The only problem with that second paragraph the HQ has in bold is that Willingham's numbers are from 2003-2010. Folt's admissions numbers are for two years later...
Jus' saying...
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