UNC Faculty Outraged That '1619 Project' Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Not Tenured
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"We demand explanations from the university’s leadership at all levels,” their statement read.
Faculty members at the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media recently expressed their dismay that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and creator of “The 1619 Project,” Nikole Hannah-Jones, was not given a tenured position at the university. Forty members of the Hussman School’s faculty released a statement on Medium on Wednesday, writing that they were “stunned at the failure to award” Hannah-Jones a tenured position. They called the decision concerning and disheartening. Their statement also received over 50 additional signatures from professors at other UNC schools, as well as Ph.D. candidates. UNC announced last month that Hannah-Jones would be joining the Hussman School of Journalism and Media as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism in July.More Related News