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Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Granted Tenure After Weekslong Dispute
During a special meeting, the University of North Carolina’s board of
trustees voted 9 to 4 in favor of a tenured professorship for the leader
of The Times’s 1619 Project.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for her 1619 Project
introductory essay.
Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for her 1619 Project
introductory essay.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times
Katie Robertson <https://www.nytimes.com/by/katie-robertson>
ByKatie Robertson <https://www.nytimes.com/by/katie-robertson>
NYT, June 30, 2021Updated6:32 p.m. ET
The University of North Carolina’s board of trustees voted on Wednesday
to grant**tenure to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole
Hannah-Jones, ending a dispute that stretched on for more than a month.
Nine board members voted in favor of tenure for Ms. Hannah-Jones and
four against during a special meeting on the campus in Chapel Hill,
which some trustees attended via Zoom. The opening minutes were
livestreamed on YouTube before the proceeding moved into a closed session.
Ms. Hannah-Jones, a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, had
accepted a position as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative
Journalism at the university’s Hussman School of Journalism and was
expected to start July 1.
Her appointment drew a backlash from conservatives who took issue with
her involvement in the1619 Project
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html>,
a multimedia series from The Times Magazine that re-examined the legacy
of slavery in the United States. Ms. Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize
in 2020 for her introductory essay.
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The U.N.C. board had not held a vote on whether to give Ms. Hannah-Jones
tenure during at least two meetings since her appointment last year,
effectively denying tenure despite recommendations from the Hussman
School dean and faculty, as well as the university’s provost and chancellor.
Previous Knight Chairs at the university received tenure. Ms.
Hannah-Jones had been offered a five-year contract, with an opportunity
for tenure review.
U.N.C. students, alumni and staff, as well as prominent cultural figures
and academics, had criticized the board’s lack of action and repeatedly
called on the trustees to approve the tenure application.
Ms. Hannah-Jones also received the support of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, a major donor to the university. The foundation’s chief
executive, Richard E. Besser, sent a letter to the board chairman,
Richard Stevens, on June 3, encouraging the trustees to “support the
appointment of Ms. Hannah-Jones with full tenure privileges.”
On May 27, Ms. Hannah-Jones, who earned a master’s degree from the
Hussman School in 2003, said ina statement
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/business/media/Nikole-Hannah-Jones-UNC-tenure.html>that
she had retained legal counsel and was considering filing a
discrimination suit.
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“I had no desire to bring turmoil or a political firestorm to the
university that I love, but I am obligated to fight back against a wave
of antidemocratic suppression that seeks to prohibit the free exchange
of ideas, silence Black voices and chill free speech,” she said in the
statement, which was issued by one of the law firms representing her,
the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
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A Legal Defense Fund spokeswoman said at the time that the university
had unlawfully discriminated against Ms. Hannah-Jones “based on the
content of her journalism and scholarship and because of her race.”
Ina June 21 letter
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/business/media/nikole-hannah-jones-university-of-north-carolina-tenure.html>,
Ms. Hannah-Jones’s legal team informed the university that she would not
join the faculty without tenure, adding that she had not withdrawn her
application for tenure.
The letter,published
<http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2021/06/22/pw-exclusive-nikole-hannah-jones-will-not-join-unc-chapel-hill-faculty-without-tenure/#sthash.VljFoMv3.xL1720ep.dpbs>on
NC Policy Watch, a North Carolina news site, said Ms. Hannah-Jones had
prepared her tenure application with an expectation that it would be
voted on by the board at its meeting last November. The matter was not
addressed at that meeting, nor at a meeting in January, the letter said,
and the board offered no explanation on why tenure had been withheld.
The letter added that Ms. Hannah-Jones, after signing her fixed-term
contract, had learned of “political interference and influence from a
powerful donor,” which she believed had contributed to the failure of
the board to vote on the matter.
The “powerful donor” was apparently Walter E. Hussman Jr., the Arkansas
newspaper publisher after whom the journalism school is named. In emails
to university leaders, Mr. Hussman, who has pledged $25 million to the
school, had expressed concerns about certain aspects of the 1619 Project
and Ms. Hannah-Jones’s hiring.
But in an interview with The Times in June, Mr. Hussman said that,
despite his misgivings, he did not want to influence the board’s
decision. He added that the outcome of the matter would not affect his
donations to the university.
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The board of trustees reports to the university system’s board of
governors, whose members are appointed by the Republican-controlled
state legislature. Six of the 13 trustees are scheduled to reach the end
of their terms on July 1.
A group of students, led by the campus’s Black Student Movement, showed
up at the meeting on Wednesday in support of Ms. Hannah-Jones.U.N.C.
Police <https://police.unc.edu/>officers were captured onvideo
<https://twitter.com/tyler_fleming96/status/1410326077587722240?s=20>pushing
some students away from the meeting room, in the Carolina Inn, after the
board had gone into a closed session.
After the video was posted online, Ms. Hannah-Jonessaid
<https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1410345707182166017?s=20>on
Twitter: “It should have been communicated how this meeting would go,
that tenure proceedings are always held in closed session, and an
attempt made to de-escalate. Instead Black students were shoved and
punched because they were confused about the process. This is not right.”
Julia Clark, the vice president of the Black Student Movement, said in
an interview that there were about 75 in the group.
“The board literally put the police on Black students like dogs,
literally put them on us like dogs, in front of media,” Ms. Clark said.
She added that an officer had punched her “so hard that my mask fell off.”
“This university has repeatedly disrespected us and they have showed us
they don’t care about Black lives,” she continued.
U.N.C. did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the
episode.
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