UNC trustees grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project, after weeks of criticism N dea Yancey-Bragg, Lindsay Schnell and Claire Thorton
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Nikole Hannah-Jones was granted tenure Wednesday by the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees, ending a weeks-long controversy that had erupted on the North Carolina campus and online.
Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, is set to begin her position as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism on July 1.
Gene Davis, the board vice chair, said that in granting Hannah-Jones tenure, this board reaffirms its highest values first which drew large boos from the crowd.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday awarded tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a dramatic turnabout in the saga that has come to symbolize public colleges’ vulnerability to political forces in a polarized country. The university’s Board of Trustees formally voted, 9 to 4, in favor of bestowing the status on Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
New York Times journalist and lead author of the controversial “1619 Project,” in a special meeting.
The board’s vote capped a hectic few days in which the university’s student-body president, Lamar Richards, had petitioned his fellow board members to officially vote on Hannah-Jones before July 1, when she was scheduled to begin work as the holder of an endowed chair in UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Hannah-Jones’s lawyers had written in a letter that she would not start her position without tenure.
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The OU Board of Regentsâ June 22 decision to increase tuition costs by 2.75 percent following three years without increases has been met with disapproval from both students and faculty.
The recently approved rates increased resident tuition from $4,531.25 to $4655.70 and nonresident tuition from $12,221.75 to $12,557.70. It also raised graduate rates, with resident graduate tuition increasing from $289.39 to $334.75 and nonresident graduate tuition from $610.80 to $627.60.Â
OU News wrote in an email to The Daily that the new funding will generate more than $6 million. It said those funds will go toward student activities and academics.
â(It will) specifically (encourage the) hiring (of) additional faculty members, upgrading classrooms, increasing graduate assistant stipends, adding two new Student Life positions, providing additional Union Programming Board funding, adding two new Career Services positions, hiring two staff psychologists in University Coun
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