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Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File The University of North Carolina (UNC) has not offered tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, the founder of The New York Times ‘s discredited “1619 Project,” even though UNC’s Chapel Hill campus often extends tenure to professors who hold a Knight Chair professorship. The denial of tenure followed conservative opposition to UNC’s move in hiring Hannah-Jones, whose 1619 Project pushes Marxist critical race theory, divides Americans by race, and arguably helped inspire the Black Lives Matter and antifa riots last summer.
“This is a very political thing,” a member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees told NC Policy Watch about the decision. “The university and the board of trustees and the Board of Governors and the legislature have all been getting pressure since this thing was first announced last month. There have been people writing letters and making calls, for and against. But I will leave it to you which is carrying more weight.”
On Wednesday, Policy Watch reported that UNC “changed its plan” to offer Hannah-Jones tenure, a protected status that amounts to a career-long appointment. Instead, Hannah-Jones will start a fixed five-year term as Professor of Practice on July 1, 2021, with the option of getting reviewed for tenure at the end of that time period.
Last month, UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism announced that Hannah-Jones would become the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, taking a Knight Chair professorship, endowed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The professorship brings top professionals to classrooms to teach and mentor students.
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While not all Knight Chair professorships are tenured, all of the Knight Chair professors teaching at the Chapel Hill campus have been tenured since 1980, when UNC began working with the foundation. It seems the university offered Hannah-Jones a fixed-term position in part because such positions do not require board approval.
“It was a work-around,” the trustee told Policy Watch. “It’s maybe not a solution that is going to please everyone. Maybe it won’t please anyone. But if this […]
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