UNC Chapel Hill couldn’t take the heat and has now caved to the mob on their previous decision not to offer Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure:
THE HILL – University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill trustees have voted to approve tenure for New York Times Magazine journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones after reports she was previously denied it.
NPR reported that the trustees voted on Wednesday to approve tenure for Hannah-Jones, who had been tapped by the school recently to serve as its Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. The position is usually a tenured role.
When news broke initially that the school had denied tenure to Hannah-Jones, some reports linked the move to complaints from conservative groups about her involvement in the creation of The Times’ 1619 Project, which explores the role slavery had in the country’s founding and its history.
Among those who pushed back against Hannah-Jones receiving tenure was Walter Hussman, a donor to the school, according to NPR. The outlet reported that Hussman had issues with certain arguments made in the 1619 Project and expressed concerns to administrators, as well as one trustee.
However, school leaders later claimed, amid a fierce backlash to the denial, that Hannah-Jones’s tenure application was terminated because she didn’t come from a “traditional academic-type background.”
“We’re talking about a lifetime position here, so they’re not entered into lightly,” Richard Stevens, who chairs the board of trustees at the Chapel Hill campus, told reporters last month.
“And it’s not unusual for a member of the board, or in particular the chair of the committee, to have questions for clarification about background, particularly candidates that don’t come from a traditional academic-type background,” he added. “In this case, Chair Duckett asked for a little bit of time to be able to do that.”
This is so not shocking, as this is the way it seems to always goes with the left. The 1619 Project is garbage and they should have stood by their original decision. But now their reputation will be tarred by this and the garbage history lessons she brings with her.