{"id":55297,"date":"2021-07-07T13:49:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=55297"},"modified":"2021-07-07T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:49:58","slug":"nikole-hannah-jones-turns-down-tenure-offer-at-unc-ch-going-to-howard-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=55297","title":{"rendered":"Nikole Hannah-Jones Turns Down Tenure Offer at UNC-CH, Going to Howard U"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WUNC<\/a>: “In a detailed\u00a0written statement<\/a>, Hannah-Jones described her fond memories of studying journalism in Chapel Hill, but said she could not accept a professorship after how she was treated. She will instead accept a similar offer, with tenure, at Howard University, a private historically Black school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I won the battle for tenure,” Hannah-Jones wrote. \u201cBut I also get to decide what battles I continue to fight.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After UNC-CH trustees delayed a vote on her tenure application for months \u2014 sparking protests and numerous statements of support from students, alumni and faculty \u2014 last week, the university’s trustees voted 9-to-4 to offer her tenure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenure confers a lifetime appointment to the university and academic freedom to pursue research interests. Hannah-Jones’ work at The New York Times Magazine has centered on the legacy of racism in the United States, most notably with the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project<\/a>, which some conservatives have criticized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah-Jones has said top university officials never explained why trustees did not take up her vote following a unanimous recommendation by a faculty committee in November, but prominent donor Walter Hussman has publicly opposed her appointment to the journalism school that bears his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a public letter published on Medium<\/a>, over 45 faculty members of UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media decried the treatment of Hannah-Jones by UNC-CH leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“While disappointed, we are not surprised. We support Ms. Hannah-Jones\u2019s choice. The appalling treatment of one of our nation\u2019s most-decorated journalists by her own alma mater was humiliating, inappropriate, and unjust. We will be frank: It was racist,” faculty members wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan King, the dean of the UNC journalism school, had rigorously sought Hannah-Jones to join the school’s faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Well, of course I’m disappointed,” King said.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WUNC: “In a detailed\u00a0written statement, Hannah-Jones described her fond memories of studying journalism in Chapel Hill, but said she could not accept a professorship after how she was treated. She will instead accept a similar offer, with tenure, at Howard University, a private historically Black school. “I won the battle for tenure,” Hannah-Jones wrote. \u201cBut…<\/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-55297","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\/55297","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=55297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55298,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55297\/revisions\/55298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}