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Despite some increases in diversity, 80 percent of private-college trustees and 65 percent of public-college board members are white, a new report shows.

Nikole Hannah-Jones At a hotel bar off of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, Nikole Hannah-Jones ordered a shot of bourbon. The drink had been suggested in a phone call from Susan King, dean of the journalism school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where Hannah-Jones, moments earlier, had been granted tenure by a split vote of the Board of Trustees. This moment, on June 30, marked the culmination of a monthslong journey that had, once again, placed Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, at the very center of the nation’s polarizing reckoning over race. Hannah-Jones,...

How Chapel Hill Bungled a Star Hire In the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure case, leaders settled for less and wound up with nothing. Rachel Jessen for The Chronicle The Nikole Hannah-Jones Saga July 6, 2021 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 univers...