By Gary Pearce The School of Journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill fostered North Carolinaâs tradition of great newspapers, reporters and editors. Now it fosters a debate engulfing the school, the entire university and journalism itself. The debate flows from one-party control of universitiesâ boards of trustees. UNC-CH trustees refused to grant tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, who was offered a Knight Chair in Investigative Journalism. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist who led The New York Times 1619 examination of slavery in America. Both previous Knight Chairs, who were White, were tenured. Each universityâs Board of Trustees has 13 members. Before December 2016, the UNC Board of Governors elected eight trustees and the Governor appointed four. Each student body president is the 13th member.