UNC-Chapel Hill board approves plan to offer tenure to investigative journalist after weeks of tension
Wednesday s 9-4 vote capped weeks of tension that began when a board member halted the process over questions about her teaching credentials.
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FILE - In this May 21, 2016, file photo, Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Weeks of tension over the hiring of investigative journalist Hannah-Jones at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will now come down to a decision from the school s board of trustees on whether to offer her tenure. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Davis said that in granting tenure to Hannah-Jones the board was reaffirming its commitment to the university’s highest values of “academic freedom, open scholarly inquiry, commitment to diversity of all types, including viewpoint diversity, and promotion of constructive disagreement and civil public discourse.”
The university had announced in April that Hannah-Jones who won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project focusing on America’s history of slavery would be joining the journalism school’s faculty. It said she would take up the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism in July with a five-year contract.
“There have been those who have wrongly questioned this university’s commitment to academic freedom and open scholarly inquiry,” Mr. Davis said. “Let me be perfectly clear, our motto is Lux Libertas. Light and liberty. We remain committed to being a light shining brightly on the hill. We embrace and endorse academic freedom.”
Before the board moved into executive session, protesters were removed from the room by security officers, as shown on video posted online by Spectrum News 1, prompting criticism from Ms. Hannah-Jones.
“It should have been communicated how this meeting would go, that tenure proceedings are always held in closed session, and an attempt made to de-escalate,” she tweeted. “Instead Black students were shoved and punched because they were confused about the process. This is not right.”
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