UNC’s Faculty Executive Committee met Monday morning to call for immediate action from the Board of Trustees after it chose to postpone review of acclaimed journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones’, tenure application.
Hannah-Jones was set to return to her alma mater as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, a tenured professorship. Now, the board’s decision to “take no action” on her tenure application has led to increasing community outrage.
UNC’s Faculty Executive Committee is made up of 14 faculty members from different disciplines at the university. The meet regularly to provide recommendations to campus leadership while representing the faculty voice.
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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation issued a statement Thursday asking the UNC Board of Trustees to approve tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist hired as the schoolâs Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism.
As Policy Watch first reported this week, Hannah-Jones was pursued for a tenured position but after objections from conservative groups and members of the schoolâs board of trustees, was instead offered a fixed five-year appointment.
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Brandon Pope, a reporter for Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, has been elected president of the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Executive Committee held a special meeting Monday to discuss the Board of Trustees’ failure to grant tenure to acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
The committee unanimously passed a resolution asking the board to immediately take up the matter of tenure for Hannah-Jones.
“The Faculty Executive Committee strongly urges the Board of Trustees to uphold the long tradition of respect for recommendations from faculty bodies in hiring and tenure cases,” the committee wrote. “And to take up the matter of tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones immediately, and to explain to the fullest extent possible, without violating the law, the reasons for its decision,”