Since last May, nine top leaders have announced their retirement, resignation or departure from the university, including Bob Blouin, executive vice chancellor and provost — a position only second to the chancellor.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones has declined UNC's offer, she announced Tuesday during an interview on “CBS This Morning," and will instead be the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University.
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Trustees Dave Boliek, Haywood Cochrane, Allie Ray McCullen and John Preyer were the dissenting votes.
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"This has been a long and disconcerting year of pandemic, social strife, partisanship and personal loss. It is also a year when we have come together to stand for the ideals that originated this university."
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Walter Hussman talked to The Daily Tar Heel about his concerns regarding Nikole Hannah-Jones' hiring and her 1619 Project. He said he was concerned that her reputation would overshadow his core values, which are written on the wall of Carroll Hall and printed on the second page of his 10 newspapers.
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Hannah-Jones' legal team gave UNC a deadline of June 4 to offer her a tenured position or face a federal lawsuit, according to a letter obtained by NC Policy Watch on May 29. The Board of Trustees did not meet again by the deadline. “We look forward to continued dialogue with her counsel,” Joel Curran, vice chancellor for communications, said in a statement.
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Hundreds of Hussman School of Journalism and Media alumni have signed an open letter calling for immediate reconsideration of the UNC Board of Trustee's non-tenure of distinguished alumna Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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The word "tenure" has been in the news a lot for the past couple weeks, but what does it actually mean? Here's a comprehensive look at tenure, including the definition, the process, the implications and why Nikole Hannah-Jones' case is an unusual one.
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The BOT's decision was met with indignation among UNC students, staff and faculty. Hussman doctoral student Sophia Noor Kiser said she felt Hannah-Jones was very qualified for the position. “Nikole-Hannah Jones is a MacArthur Genius, a Pulitzer Prize winner and has changed the conversation around race in the U.S,” she said. “What more could you want?”
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"I’m not sure how I’m supposed to attend journalism classes next semester when I know that the opportunity to be taught by a Black journalist who is one of the most seminal writers of all time has been put on the line in the name of conservative politics and white feelings."
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UNC graduate student Amari Pollard and U.S. Lacrosse Lead Clinician Tari Kandemiri recently launched their new ESPN show "Sound on with Tari and Amari."
Read More »![Nash Consing, a senior studying visual journalism and communications, poses for a portrait in front of Carroll Hall on Sunday, Apr. 11, 2021. "We experience the trauma [of being Asian-American] every day, " says Consing. "So why not capitalize on the joy too?"](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/dth/f136e33d-dbbf-4265-ba72-dfb69cbc82ed.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=300&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format)
UNC Asian American and Pacific Islander students in the journalism field reflect on their experiences within the Hussman School of Media and Journalism and whether they have felt supported by institutional resources and programs offered to them within the school and beyond.
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“It kind of just gets me out of the work mode, it’s something that I can just pick up and just do something creative and not be focused too much on — it's just something relaxing that I like to do,” she said.
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UNC seniors in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media class initiated a real-life project allowing students to reconnect while bringing campus alive once more.
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Along with many different schools and departments within UNC, the Hussman School of Journalism and Media is grappling with student needs and faculty concerns as the spring semester nears.
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