UNC-Chapel Hill to Pay $1.5 Million for Misreporting Campus Crime Statistics

The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington on July 21, 2007. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will pay $1.5 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education, after a six-year review found “severe deficiencies” in the university’s crime and safety reporting.

In a campus-wide message announcing the settlement, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz said the Education Department had been investigating the university from 2013 to 2019, and the weaknesses exposed by the investigation are “disappointing.”