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Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she will not teach at UNC Chapel Hill following an extended fight over tenure. She said she would instead take up the tenured Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at Howard University, a historically Black school in Washington.
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Trustees of North Carolina's flagship public university are going to meet behind closed doors amid intense criticism of their decision not to offer tenure to investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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Discontent over how Black students, faculty and staff have been treated for years at North Carolina's flagship public university is reemerging after the school refused to offer tenure to a prominent investigative journalist who's won awards for her work on systemic racism.
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The UNC Chapel Hill student body president is petitioning for a special meeting of the university's board of trustees to vote on tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has told the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a letter that she will not join the faculty at its journalism school without tenure.
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A closer look at the Nikole Hannah-Jones story that has rocked UNC Chapel Hill, and the decade of political muscle-flexing that has shaped decision-making in the University of North Carolina system.
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The star New York Times reporter's bid for a tenured professorship has run aground on racial politics and an approach to journalism that runs counter to the donor whose name adorns the school.
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The decision highlights the divisions between her view of the mission of journalism and Arkansas newspaper publisher whose name adorns the school.
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The pressure on trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to grant tenure to investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones continued to mount Friday as a major funding partner joined the call to change her status and a sought-after chemistry professor decided not to join the faculty over the dispute.
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A major University of North Carolina donor said Wednesday that he sent emails to university officials questioning the hiring of Nikole Hannah-Jones after he became concerned about how much research went into the selection of the investigative journalist, whose award-winning work on slavery he called “highly contentious and highly controversial."