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The UNC-Chapel Hill Black Student Movement held a demonstration on campus Friday to show support for Nikole Hannah-Jones and give a platform for Black students to air long-standing grievances.
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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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Female faculty of color and Indigenous faculty who have recently left UNC Chapel Hill say that the racial and political climate at the university fortified their decision to accept better job offers outside North Carolina.
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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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It is a busy week in North Carolina Politics. Former President Donald Trump headlines the NCGOP Convention in Greenville; there are new revelations in the Nikole Hannah-Jones saga; and at the General Assembly: the governor’s pick to oversee environmental issues was turned away as budget talks remain stalled. Host Jeff Tiberii talks with Rob Schofield of NC Policy Watch and Becki Gray of the John Locke Foundation about the state political stories of the week.
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Walter Hussman Jr. says he discussed concerns about bringing Hannah-Jones to the journalism school with the dean, but Susan King told him she though having her in the school would be a plus for the university and would bring prestige to the school.
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A major University of North Carolina donor whose name is on its journalism school voiced concerns about the school's hiring of investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in the weeks before her application for tenure was halted.
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The offer of a tenured teaching position to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has been resubmitted to the board of trustees at a North Carolina university that faced an uproar last week when her tenure application was halted.