Creator of the controversial 1619 Project for The New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones will not yet be receiving tenure in her professorial post and will instead be given a five-year fixed contract as Professor of Practice with the option of being reviewed for tenure at the end of that period, NC Policy Watch reports.
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Hannah-Jones was being pursued for a tenured professorship position as UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, with Hannah-Jones beginning the tenure process last summer.
According to Dean of UNC-Hussman Susan King, Hannah-Jones had submitted a tenure package that was as well-received as any she had ever seen, and added that Hannah-Jones received enthusiastic support along the way, up until reaching the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees who chose not to take action on her application.
"I'm not sure why and I’m not sure if that’s ever happened before," King said.
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz told board members that Hannah-Jones was a strong candidate, such that he was willing to offer the five-year fixed term position.
Knight Chairs, which are sponsored by the Knight Foundation, are filled by influential and experienced journalists who split their time between working in classrooms and continuing as journalists. The position doesn't have to be tenured, but since 1980 when UNC started working with the program, all have been granted tenure.
One UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees member, speaking with Policy Watch on conditions of anonymity called the fixed-term position "A work-around."
read more here: https://thepostmillennial.com/1619-project-creator-nikole-hannah-jones-denied-tenure-at-unc
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She looks like she could be Ronald MacDonald's wife. The country would be better off if she got hired by him to flip burgers for a living.
Is her hair racist?
No, but she is a racist.
i wonder what her reaction would be if she knew that for 400 years the israelites were slaves in egypt
Anti Racism is in Fact Racism! Jus Sayin...
OK, NOW WHAT ??
When is right going to be seen as right again in this country and wrong seen as as wrong and not enabled. There is a straight line dividing the two and they continue to make it crooked.
Good for UNC, but she shouldn't have been given any type of contract. This racist idiot should be banned from teaching!
Hannah-Jones is nothing more than a super racist hack pretending to be a journalist. The 1619 project is a racist joke.
That is because this "Bozo the clown" wanna be is a lying sack