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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is facing increasing calls to grant tenure to its newest and perhaps most controversial faculty member, Nikole Hannah-Jones, including rowdy student protests and a threat of legal action.
Hannah-Jones, scheduled to join UNC’s faculty in July, is well-known as the architect of the highly controversial New York Times’ 1619 Project, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize.
While she is slated to join the UNC faculty as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, UNC trustees decided to hold off on granting her tenure, and instead approved a five-year contract, until questions for clarification about her background could be answered.
The 1619 Project was roundly criticized by many scholars and the New York Times had to issue a correction over it because it was not historically accurate.
But some have traced her tenure rejection to pressure from conservative groups, including the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, who labeled Hannah-Jones’ hiring a “degradation of journalistic standards.”
Additionally, the public benefit organization Carolina Partnership for Reform lambasted UNC’s decision to hire Hannah-Jones as throwing “gas on the fire” of racial tensions across the country.
However the narrative that conservative groups successfully blocked Hannah-Jones’ tenure appears inaccurate.
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Just The News reports that UNC trustees had concerns over her lack of a traditional scholarly background well before the official announcement over her hiring had been made, and that the board had postponed the tenure review for Hannah-Jones in January, three months before UNC announced the hire.
Despite this, some have pounced on the decision as proof that there is a lack of academic freedom at UNC. For example, its student body President Lamar Richards urged the UNC Board of Trustees to vote for Hannah-Jones’ tenure, saying “We have a duty to this university to uphold the values we all hold so dear.”In addition to these statements, a student and community protest demanded tenure for Hannah-Jones. Demonstrators lined up outside a meeting of the Board of Trustees, holding signs with messages like “Support Genius Not Ignorance” and “#ProtectBlackFaculty.” During the meeting, protesters chanted “shame on you” and “we will not […]
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