CBSSports: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Louisiana State University were the only two public schools to deny scholarship records requests. CBS' reporter sought information about how many multi-year athletic scholarships the universities awarded, how many were not renewed, generic copies of scholarship agreements and documentation of non-renewal policies.
CBS Sports surveyed 32 public universities and 11 private universities asking for records related to six specific items: total number of athletic scholarships, number of athletes receiving multi-year scholarships, length of multi-year scholarships, number of athletic scholarships that were not renewed, generic copies of scholarship agreements and copies of non-renewal policies.
The records requests were for a report CBS Sports put together on the use multi-year scholarships by schools that had football or basketball teams ranked in the top 25 last year.
Only two public universities denied the records requests: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Louisiana State University. None of the private universities provided records.
UNC Chapel Hill told the reporters that “there is no obligation under the North Carolina Public Records Act requiring a state agency to create or compile a record that does not exist when responding to a public records request.”
Read CBS Sports report here. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jon-solomon/24711142/which-colleges-denied-or-charged-fees-for-scholarship-data