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UNC trustees approve tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, bringing end to campus controversy Kate Murphy and Martha Quillin, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Jun. 30—CHAPEL HILL — UNC-Chapel Hill trustees voted to approve tenure for distinguished journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones at a meeting Wednesday afternoon, bringing a resolution to the national controversy that has ensued over her hire. Hannah-Jones, who is a Black woman, is to join the UNC-CH faculty Thursday as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media. She and h...

The UNC Board of Trustees approved tenure for acclaimed journalist and incoming professor Nikole Hannah-Jones on Wednesday during a special meeting. Amid demonstrations in favor of Hannah-Jones outside the Carolina Inn, where the meeting was being held, the Board of Trustees voted 9-4 in favor of granting tenure. Chair Richard Stevens, as well as Trustees Jeff Brown, Ralph Meekins, Chuck Duckett, Munroe Cobey, Kelly Matthews Hopkins, Lamar Richards, Teresa Artis Neal and Gene Davis, voted in favor of the measure. Trustees Dave Boliek, Allie Ray McCullen, John Preyer and Haywood Cochrane voted...

/ Creative Commons Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will be returning to her alma mater as a full professor at the UNC Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media following a vote Wednesday by the UNC-CH Board of Trustees. Updated at 9:13 p.m. Nikole Hannah-Jones' battle for tenure at UNC Chapel Hill has ended with a victory for the prominent Black journalist and creator of the '1619 Project.' Following a closed session meeting Wednesday, marked by the forceful removal of student protesters, the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted 9-to-4 to grant her tenure. ...

The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved tenure for acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones on Wednesday, ending a month-long saga that has outraged students, faculty and journalists across the country. In a public vote, the board approved Hannah-Jones’s tenure application 9-4 after a closed session of nearly three hours. Voting “no” were members Haywood Cochrane, Allie Rae McCullen, John Preyer and David Boliek. Hannah-Jones issued a written statement shortly after the vote, leaving it unclear if she would accept the position. “I want to acknowledge the tremendous outpouring...