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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will offer a history course called Big Time College Sports and Rights of Athletes, 1956 to the Present next year, The News & Observer reported. Jay Smith, a professor of history who was to teach the class again this year for a third time, said in June that it had been cancelled because administrators feared “blowback” over it.
The course discusses the major UNC “paper classes” scandal involving student athletes, as it’s based in part on Smith’s 2015 co-authored book about the case. He filed a grievance alleging a violation of his academic freedom in July, according to the News & Observer, and was notified two weeks later that he could again teach the class in the spring. He participated in a hearing before a faculty panel on the matter earlier this month and is awaiting the results.
