The dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is stepping down at the end of the current school year. Karen Gil will stay on at the school as a professor.
Gil wrote to faculty that is time for new leadership in the college as the school works to implement reforms in the wake of an academic scandal in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies.
The Raleigh News and Observer reports Gil was mentioned in a report by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein but not implicated.
The report says Gil denied having any knowledge of so called “paper classes” until details of the scandal emerged.
Gil will return to teaching in the department of psychology. She has led the College of Arts and Sciences since 2009.
Her department is UNC's largest academic unit, with more than 16,000 undergraduates and nearly 2,600 graduate students.
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