‘1619 Project’ Author Nikole Hannah-Jones Will Not Teach at University of North Carolina
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the leading author of the New York Times’s highly controversial 1619 Project, has turned down a tenure offer from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after the university caved to pressure and approved her tenure appointment.
Hannah-Jones made the announcement on Tuesday during an interview with “CBS This Morning.” Instead, she will be teaching at Howard University, a historically black institution in Washington, D.C., as a Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. She will also lead Howard’s newly founded Center for Journalism and Democracy, which aims to train investigative journalists who focus on “the crisis our democracy is facing,” according to a university press release.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones announced she will not teach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill following a fight over tenure. She is pictured here being interviewed at her home in Brooklyn.
By Leah Asmelash, CNN
After months of grappling with the university over her tenureship, Nikole Hannah-Jones announced Tuesday she would not stay on at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, choosing instead, along with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, to join the faculty of Howard University, one of the most prestigious historically Black universities in the country.
It’s a significant decision, as Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)
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Declining a faculty position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nikole Hannah-Jones on Tuesday gave a detailed account of the pain and disappointment she had experienced during a drawn-out tenure process that concluded last week. In a 4,000-word statement, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist took piercing aim at university leaders, who, she said, had failed to show courage when powerful forces lined up against her.
“When leadership had the opportunity to stand up,” Hannah-Jones wrote, “it did not.”