Susan King, dean of the University’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media told the outlet.
Republicans have continuously spoke out against Hannah-Jones work, specifically
The 1619 Project which chronicles America’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on the nation s founding. Some lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, have gone so far as to call for a ban on the project in schools across the country.
Hannah-Jones went through an extensive process including putting together and submitting an application to be approved for tenured to the Board of Trustees. That group ruled not to take action on her application, ultimately leading to a non-tenured professor position offered by Chapel Hill’s Chancellor
By TOM FOREMAN Jr.
Associated Press
Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school s reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose work on the countryâs history of slavery has drawn the ire of conservatives.
Hannah-Jones was offered a position as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the school announced last month. Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for her work on The 1619 Project for The New York Times Magazine.
But the school changed its offer from a tenured position to a five-year term as a professor with an option for review at the end of that time, as first reported by NC Policy Watch on Wednesday.
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“Dr. Pollack is an astute and thoughtful higher education leader whose breadth of knowledge and depth of expertise position him well to build on the many strengths of our pharmacy school and cultivate pharmaceutical research scientists and clinicians who are committed to tackling society’s most pressing health care challenges. ”
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Gary M. Pollack, professor and dean of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Toledo, has been appointed dean of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
The announcement was made today by Provost A. Scott Weber, and Michael E. Cain, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB. Pollack will join UB in August.