The UNC Board of Trustees met for a special meeting Wednesday to discuss and vote on acclaimed journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones’, tenure application.
Amid various student demonstrations outside the Carolina Inn, where the meeting was being held, the Board of Trustees granted her tenure. The board voted to grant tenure 9-4.
Chair Richard Stevens, Jeff Brown, Ralph Meekins, Chuck Duckett, Munroe Cobey, Kelly Matthews Hopkins, Lamar Richards, Teresa Artis Neal, and Gene Davis .
David Boliek, Allie Ray McCullen, John Preyer and Haywood Cochrane voted against the measure.
The meeting, held at 3 p.m., was a result of growing public scrutiny following the board’s inaction to review Hannah-Jones’ tenure application earlier this year.
The Board of Trustees is having a meeting tomorrow, June 30th at 3pm regarding the status of Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tenured position. The BOT will hear and respect our concerns as Black students. We will be meeting at the Hill Ballroom at the Carolina Inn. See you there! pic.twitter.com/LCDrXU0Den
— The Black Student Movement (@unc_bsm) June 29, 2021
Demonstrators at the Carolina Inn were forcibly removed from the meeting ahead of a closed session for the tenure vote. Many came in support of Hannah-Jones and to speak against the board’s inaction
Hannah-Jones was set to join the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s faculty as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. Unlike previous Knight Chairs, however, the Board of Trustees did not offer her a tenured professorship and instead offered a fixed five-year term.
The legal team of Hannah-Jones announced last week she will not join the UNC faculty unless she is offered a tenured position. Her original start date as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism was set for Thursday, July 1.
While university leadership said the board previously took no action on Hannah-Jones’ tenure application as she lacked a “traditional, academic-type background,” reports from NC Policy Watch said the decision to “postpone” review of her application could be motivated by the reporter’s work in orchestrating The 1619 Project – which portrays the impact of slavery on American history and Black culture.
The Board of Trustees received Hannah-Jones’ tenure application for consideration at its January 2021 meeting. The chair of the board’s University Affairs Committee, trustee Chuck Duckett, then indicated he had questions about Hannah-Jones’ dossier, which delayed its consideration.
Wednesday’s special meeting comes, not only as Hannah-Jones is set to begin her position at UNC, but also as the terms of five out of the 13 trustees, including Chair Richard Stevens, are set to end on Thursday.
UNC’s failure to offer Hannah-Jones tenure has led to national headlines, a protest at May’s Board of Trustees’ meeting and condemnations from various groups — including UNC faculty and alumni, student government, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP chapter and the National Association of Black Journalists, among others.
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