There was an outpouring of support for Hannah-Jones on Wednesday
Lindsey Ellefson | May 19, 2021 @ 2:37 PM
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Nikole Hannah-Jones, who founded the Pulitzer-winning “1619 Project,” was not offered tenure at her alma matter, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Instead, she was offered a different role with the option for a tenure review in five years.
The reversal from the university, which previously announced the MacArther Fellow would teach in the Knight Chair position that comes with the expectation of tenure, came after conservative pushback to the “1619 Project” but wasn’t supported by the faculty and tenure committee.
NC Policy Watch first reported the denial, quoting UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media dean Susan King as saying, “It’s disappointing, it’s not what we wanted and I am afraid it will have a chilling effect.”
Nicole Hurd, the founder and CEO of College Advising Corps, a national organization which helps students get into college, has been named as Lafayette College’s 18th president.
Tom Foreman Jr.
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. Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school s reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones work on the countryâs history of slavery has drawn the ire of conservatives. A report in NC Policy Watch on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 said Hannah-Jones was to be offered a tenured professorship as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Nicole Hurd, a historian of American religion who spent the last 15 years founding and leading an organization that broadened access to college for low-income and underrepresented students, will become the new president of Lafayette College in Easton later this summer. The college announced her hiring on Wednesday. She’ll take the helm as Lafayette prepares to open for a fall semester expected .
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school s reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose work on the country’s history of slavery has drawn the ire of conservatives.
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. Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school s reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones work on the country’s history of slavery has drawn the ire of conservatives. A report in NC