{"id":43181,"date":"2021-05-22T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=43181"},"modified":"2021-05-22T14:58:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T14:58:51","slug":"unc-ch-board-of-governors-not-offering-tenure-to-peabody-pulitizer-and-macarthur-genius-grant-winning-nikole-hannah-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=43181","title":{"rendered":"UNC-CH Board of Governors Not Offering Tenure to Peabody, Pulitizer, and MacArthur Genius Grant Winning Nikole Hannah-Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2021\/05\/nikole-hannah-jones-tenure-unc.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>: &#8220;Earlier this year, UNC\u2013Chapel Hill\u2019s Hussman School of Journalism and Media announced that it had extended acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones a position as its Knight chair in race and investigative journalism. Like other (though not all)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/knight-chairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knight chairs<\/a>\u00a0at journalism schools around the country, this was to be a tenured position.\u00a0On Wednesday, the website NC Policy Watch\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpolicywatch.com\/2021\/05\/19\/pw-special-report-after-conservative-criticism-unc-backs-down-from-offering-acclaimed-journalist-a-tenured-position\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that the yearslong conservative war against Hannah-Jones\u2014predicated chiefly on her leadership of the New York Times\u2019 controversial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/1619-america-slavery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1619 Project<\/a>\u2014seemed to have succeeded in robbing her of tenure, along with all the job stability and protections for academic freedom that status entails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a job with \u201cNikole Hannah-Jones\u201d\u20142003 alum of the Hussman School and recent winner of both the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and a MacArthur \u201cGenius Grant\u201d\u2014written all over it. But Policy Watch reported that, as the result of an apparent compromise between the university\u2019s chancellor (who supported her appointment) and the board of trustees, Hannah-Jones will start in July but not with tenure. She\u2019s been offered, instead, a five-year term, with a tenure review to take place at the end of that time. To other professors looking on, this was clearly chilling. \u201cThat\u2019s literally saying they\u2019ll tenure her if she behaves appropriately at UNC, rather than tenure her based upon her record as reviewed by peers, colleagues, academic supervisors, etc.,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelSocolow\/status\/1395004776690110469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a>\u00a0journalism professor Michael Socolow on Twitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: &#8220;Earlier this year, UNC\u2013Chapel Hill\u2019s Hussman School of Journalism and Media announced that it had extended acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones a position as its Knight chair in race and investigative journalism. Like other (though not all)\u00a0Knight chairs\u00a0at journalism schools around the country, this was to be a tenured position.\u00a0On Wednesday, the website NC Policy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43182,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181\/revisions\/43182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}