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Sun, 07/11/2021 - 19:59 CHARLOTTE CENTER HELPS INCARCERATED WOMEN TRANSITION BACK INTO SOCIETY: In their employment program, they prepare incarcerated people to return to the workforce and work with people whose past arrests are barriers to getting jobs. Another CCT program works with families and children of incarcerated people and focuses on their social and emotional wellness. About 80% of the women at the center are mothers, and most of their children are under the age of 18. Research shows that parental incarceration can have residual effects on children that show up as behavioral issues...

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...

At UNC, the Damage Is Done No matter what happens to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure, people of color have lost trust in Chapel Hill. Courtesy of Malinda Maynor Lowery Malinda Maynor Lowery, a history professor, is leaving the University of North Carolina because of a series of missteps. 'Riven by Discord' June 29, 2021 This week, Erika K. Wilson will officially become a full professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — one of the few Black women to hold that title. But Wilson, who teaches law and public policy, has fo...

And the NC GOP answers by shortchanging teachers and refusing to expand Medicaid. Clueless. Remember that they expect small children to be as careful and fastidious with cloth masks as professionally trained medical personnel are with surgical masks. What could happen? #ncpolhttps://t.co/c2uzAFw8dF No steps were taken to determine which side of the masks were contaminated (kind of important, ya think?). Sections were cut and soaked in a compound to release proteins before any analysis began, so it's entirely possible (probable) that the masks had functioned exactly how they were supposed to, ...

This column originally appeared in The News and Observer of Raleigh. The uproar over Nikole Hannah-Jones’ hiring at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill isn’t only about the the Board of Trustees’ concern about awarding tenure to a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the School of Journalism. It’s also about the long-term damage that Republican political meddling is doing to the university’s ability to attract and keep faculty, UNC professors told me. “The general atmosphere of the past few years is certainly having a detrimental impact on our ability to ...