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

One party control = campus chaos

UNC-Chapel Hill’s refusal to grant tenure to acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is emblematic of the systemic racism chronicled in Jones's 1619 Project.

By Gary Pearce The School of Journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill fostered North Carolina’s tradition of great newspapers, reporters and editors. Now it fosters a debate engulfing the school, the entire university and journalism itself. The debate flows from one-party control of universities’ boards of trustees. UNC-CH trustees refused to grant tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, who was offered a Knight Chair in Investigative Journalism. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist who led The New York Times 1619 examination of slavery in America. Both previous Knight Chairs, ...

© Getty Images The University of North Carolina is one of America's great educational institutions — that's not easy to say as a Wake Forest graduate married to a Duke alumna. But UNC's cherished history of excellence is being challenged by right-wing political yahoos interfering in its academic affairs. The latest is the refusal of the Chapel Hill board of trustees to grant tenure to New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones for an endowed Knight chair at the Hussman School of Journalism. They claim it's because of her lack of academic credentials. That — I think — is a lie. The K...