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Rachelle has served as the interim vice provost since November 2020 and will begin this role on Jan. 1, 2022. During her tenure, she has developed and implemented significant policy and process improvements in Carolina’s financial aid and enrollment operations that have improved efficiency and better serve our students.
UNC Mega-Donor Walter Hussman Denies Exerting Pressure Over Hannah-Jones Hiring As the deadline approaches for UNC-Chapel Hill to avoid a federal discrimination lawsuit over its handling of acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jonesâs tenure application, new details continue to emerge about the behind-the-scenes lobbying that led the university to a crisis point. In a Wednesday interview with Policy Watch, UNC-Chapel Hill mega-donor Walter Hussman, Jr. detailed his opposition to the hiring of Hannah-Jones, first reported by digital magazine âHereâs actually the true fac...
Publisher Hussman contradicted by J-school dean on his opposition to hiring of 1619 Project creator The Assembly, a new digital magazine in North Carolina, has more today on Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman’s opposition to the University of North Carolina journalism school hiring Nikole Hannah-Jones as a distinguished professor. Short version: He appears to have dug his hole deeper. Advertisement Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize as creator of the 1619 Project on four centuries of slavery in the U.S. It was presented as commentary and it has spawned a furious counter...
Jun. 2—The UNC-Chapel Hill journalism school's top donor and namesake says his "concerns haven't gone away" about the hiring of journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. But Walter Hussman Jr. said those concerns won't affect his $25 million pledge to the school. Hussman said he stands by emails he sent to top university officials last year expressing his qualms with Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize ...
A major University of North Carolina donor whose name is on its journalism school voiced concerns about the school's hiring of investigative