SYNDICATED 5 hours ago University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty were stung Tuesday by Nikole Hannah-Jones rejection of a tenured position at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, but their ire was pointed at the university s Board of Trustees and administration. Posted by
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Nikole Hannah-Jones announced Tuesday (July 6) she’s joining the faculty of Howard University after the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill initially denied her bid for tenure.
Hannah-Jones, creator of
CBS This Morning with
Gayle King, and came after the Board of Trustees at UNC initially denied the Pulitzer Prize winner tenure. Protests from students, alumni, and faculty led school officials to reverse their decision and offer Hannah-Jones tenure on June 30.
Hannah-Jones will join Howard as the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism and will help establish a brand new Center for Journalism and Democracy at the school, according to
By Julia Johnson | July 6, 2021 | 4:15pm EDT
Nikole Hannah-Jones, inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications. (Getty Images)
On Tuesday, July 6, the architect of the infamous 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, announced to
CBS This Morning her decision to decline the University of North Carolina’s offer for tenure, after initially being denied it, and accept a position at Howard University as a chaired professor.
“I’ve decided to decline the offer of tenure. I will not be teaching on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” Hannah-Jones told CBS’s Gayle King.
Updated July 6, 2021 at 11:31 AM ET
Less than a week after trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill belatedly voted to grant tenure to
New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, Howard University announced Hannah-Jones will instead be joining its faculty.
Howard, the prestigious historically Black university in Washington, D.C., also announced it is hiring writer and Howard alumnus Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of
Their positions were funded by nearly $20 million in donations from the Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation as well as an anonymous donor.
The funding establishes the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism, a tenured position to be held by Hannah-Jones.
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