UNC trustees OK journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tenure bid
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) – Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have approved a plan to offer tenure to investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Wednesday’s 9-4 vote capped weeks of tension that began when a board member halted the process over questions about her teaching credentials.
The board voted to accept the tenure application at a special meeting that included a closed-door session.
The university announced in April that Hannah-Jones would be joining the journalism school faculty in July.
But her lawyers announced last week she wouldn’t report for work without tenure. She had won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project on America’s history of slavery.
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