Last updated: June 30 at 4:55 p.m.
Many UNC academic departments, organizations and affiliates have written statements of support for Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Daily Tar Heel compiled the following departmental statements using their respective websites and public social media posts, including this Twitter thread started by the Carolina Black Caucus. This list will be continually updated.
Hussman School of Journalism and Media
- Hussman School Alumni Board
- "On academic freedom: Affirming our integrity and independence" (Hussman faculty)
- "Stunned: UNC Hussman Faculty Statement on Nikole Hannah-Jones"
- "Transparency Now: UNC Hussman School of Journalism Black Alumni Support Tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones"
- "Unacceptable: UNC Hussman Alumni denounce UNC’s failure to grant Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure by June 4"
- "UNC Hussman Alumni Protest the UNC Board of Trustees’ Failure to Grant Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure"
Other professional schools and departments
- African, African American and Diaspora Studies
- American Studies
- Art and Art History
- Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Biology
- Cell Biology and Physiology
- Chemistry
- Classics
- Communication
- Computer Science
- Dramatic Art
- English and Comparative Literature
- Environment, Ecology and Energy Program
- Eshelman School of Pharmacy
- Exercise and Sports Science
- Geography
- Geological Sciences
- Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Global Studies
- History
- Institute of Marine Sciences
- Kenan-Flagler Business School
- Linguistics
- School of Medicine Departments and Centers
- Marine Sciences
- Mathematics
- Music
- Peace, War and Defense
- Pharmacology
- Political Science
- Psychology and Neuroscience
- Public Policy
- Religious Studies
- Romance Studies
- School of Education
- School of Information and Library Science
- School of Law
- School of Nursing
- School of Social Work
- Sociology
- Statistics and Operations Research
- Women's and Gender Studies
Student Government:
- Graduate and Professional Student Government
- Student Body President Lamar Richards' open letter: "It's past time for a genuine reckoning"
- Student Body President Lamar Richards' letter to Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz
- Undergraduate Executive Branch
- Undergraduate Senate
University organizations and affiliates:
- American Association of University Professors
- Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee
- Assistant Chair in the Department of Geography Sara Smith
- Campus Safety Commission
- Campus Y Executive Board
- Carolina Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists
- Carolina Black Caucus
- Carolina Performing Arts
- Carolina Population Center
- Center for Faculty Excellence
- Center for the Study of the American South
- Chairperson of the Faculty Mimi Chapman
- Chancellor's Science Scholars Program
- Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward
- Committee on the Status of Women
- Digital and Lifelong Learning
- Employee Forum
- Faculty Executive Committee
- First-Generation Student Association
- Gillings School of Global Public Health Dean Barbara K. Rimer
- Gillings School of Global Public Health Leadership Program
- Graduate Student Association of the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Ida B. Wells Society
- Leaders in Medical Student Education
- Library Association at UNC-Chapel Hill
- Lineberger Equity Council
- Playmakers Repertory Company (with faculty in the Department of Dramatic Art)
- The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
- Residence Hall Association
- UE 150 The Workers Union at UNC
- UNC faculty members
Alumni:
Knight Foundation (not affiliated with UNC):
If your organization or department is missing from this list, please email university@dailytarheel.com.
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