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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 a star journalist’s tenure bid entered higher ed’s caldron of politics, race, and money.

Top Candidate Turns Down UNC Job, Cites School's Mistreatment Of Nikole Hannah-Jones Chemist Lisa Jones turned down a job at the University of North Carolina after trustees rejected Nikole Hannah Jones' tenure request. In a letter sent to school administrators, more than 30 faculty members from the chemistry department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said the school’s refusal to grant Pulitzer-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure is injuring the university and risks doing more damage.  Hannah-Jones, a highly regarded journalist who specializes in education repor...

An outcry erupted last week after news emerged that the Pulitzer Prize winner had not been awarded tenure as she prepares to join the journalism faculty at Chapel Hill.

Nikole Hannah-Jones will start in July at UNC with the title of Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media.