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Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Earlier this month, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead author of The New York Times’ controversial (and historically dubious) 1619 Project and an apparent supporter of the Cuban regime , declined an offer of tenure from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. If one recalls, she had initially been denied tenure, with her lack of academic credentials and the fact that the 1619 Project’s conclusions have been widely challenged by historians being cited as likely reasons.
As one has come to expect by now, however, the university’s leadership caved amid the backlash to the initial decision, which was replete with accusations of (you guessed it) “racism” and allegations of conservative intolerance to opposing viewpoints. The trustees then voted to offer tenure to Hannah-Jones, only for her to then thumb her nose at Chapel Hill’s change of heart.
For both of us, having spent considerable time in recent years on university campuses (at Chapel Hill and Yale, respectively), this flip-flop on the part of Chapel Hill’s trustees is hardly surprising. With Erich Prince having been on Yale’s campus in 2015—amid the now-infamous hysteria following an anodyne email about Halloween costumes—it has become clear that university administrators are experts at folding under pressure, whether such demands are coming from the national press, a small cadre of activist professors, or students themselves.
This was also on display when Gov. Pat McCrory taught a politics seminar at Chapel Hill in 2019 , which was accompanied by frequent statements on the part of the faculty aiming to distance the university from the seminar, as if exposing students to different perspectives amounted to the political science department assuming a frightening degree of liability.
Certain statistics further make clear that universities, all of which receive considerable taxpayer money, including from the federal government, are not only overtly ideological projects but are also unmistakably hostile to conservative (or even simply non-left-wing) viewpoints. A 2020 study by The Harvard Crimson determined that only 1.46% of the faculty self-identified as conservative, with faculty campaign contributions also flowing overwhelmingly to Democrats . Students on campuses across the country are self-censoring ; […]
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