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Rachelle has served as the interim vice provost since November 2020 and will begin this role on Jan. 1, 2022. During her tenure, she has developed and implemented significant policy and process improvements in Carolina’s financial aid and enrollment operations that have improved efficiency and better serve our students.

UNC Mega-Donor Walter Hussman Denies Exerting Pressure Over Hannah-Jones Hiring As the deadline approaches for UNC-Chapel Hill to avoid a federal discrimination lawsuit over its handling of acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure application, new details continue to emerge about the behind-the-scenes lobbying that led the university to a crisis point. In a Wednesday interview with Policy Watch, UNC-Chapel Hill mega-donor Walter Hussman, Jr. detailed his opposition to the hi...

Publisher Hussman contradicted by J-school dean on his opposition to hiring of 1619 Project creator The Assembly, a new digital magazine in North Carolina, has more today on Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman’s opposition to the University of North Carolina journalism school hiring Nikole Hannah-Jones as a distinguished professor. Short version: He appears to have dug his hole deeper. Advertisement Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize as creator of the 1619 Project on four ...

Jun. 2—The UNC-Chapel Hill journalism school's top donor and namesake says his "concerns haven't gone away" about the hiring of journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. But Walter Hussman Jr. said those concerns won't affect his $25 million pledge to the school. Hussman said he stands by emails he sent to top university officials last year expressing his qualms with Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize ...

A major University of North Carolina donor whose name is on its journalism school voiced concerns about the school's hiring of investigative

Walter E. Hussman Jr., whose name is on the university’s journalism school, wrote emails to a dean criticizing the appointment of the New York Times Pulitzer winner.

Now, more information is coming out about Hannah-Jones tenure opponent, Walter E. Hussman Jr. for whom UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media is named. In 2019, the UNC alumnus, newspaper publisher, and megadonor donated $25 million to the school, the largest it had ever received.  In emails acquired by the Assembly, Hussman said he was worried about the controversy of “tying the UNC journalism school to the 1619 project.” In December 2020, Hussman wrote emails to UNC Hussman dean...

A major University of North Carolina donor whose name is on its journalism school voiced concerns about the school's hiring of investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in the weeks before her application for tenure was halted.

Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Donors concerns voiced before Hannah-Jones tenure stalled A major University of North Carolina donor whose name is on its journalism school voiced concerns about the school’s hiring of investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in the weeks before her application for tenure was halted ByThe Associated Press • 4 min read The Associated Press FILE - In this May 21, 2016, file photo, Nikole Hannah-Jones attends t...