{"id":51601,"date":"2021-06-23T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=51601"},"modified":"2021-06-23T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:05:19","slug":"nikole-hannah-jones-will-not-join-unc-chapel-hill-faculty-without-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=51601","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nikole Hannah-Jones will not join UNC-Chapel Hill faculty without tenure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/pulse.ncpolicywatch.org\/2021\/06\/22\/pw-exclusive-nikole-hannah-jones-will-not-join-unc-chapel-hill-faculty-without-tenure\/#sthash.XOd3dCi4.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">The Progressive Pulse<\/a>: [This article was billed as an exclusive by The Progressive Pulse; we are simply re-posting it here. Give them credit where credit is due.] &#8220;Nikole Hannah-Jones will not join the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill without tenure, according to a letter from her legal team to the university this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the letter, Hannah-Jones will not begin her position as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism on July 1, as scheduled, and will not take the position without tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The letter makes clear that Hannah-Jones has not withdrawn her application for tenure and does not intend to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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\">As Policy Watch has reported<\/a>, the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees declined to vote on tenure for Hannah-Jones, acclaimed journalist and creator of \u201cThe 1619 Project,\u201d when she was recruited for the position. She was then offered a five-year fixed-term contract \u2014 a striking departure from precedent. Previous Knight Chairs at UNC, who are by definition media professionals rather than career academics, have been hired with tenure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Pulse: [This article was billed as an exclusive by The Progressive Pulse; we are simply re-posting it here. Give them credit where credit is due.] &#8220;Nikole Hannah-Jones will not join the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill without tenure, according to a letter from her legal team to the university this week. According to the&#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-51601","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\/51601","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=51601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51602,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51601\/revisions\/51602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}