New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones to a tenured professorship, on Thursday the chair of the school’s board of trustees, Richard Stevens, placed responsibility for the decision on the dean of the school’s journalism department.
When Hannah-Jones’s tenure package came to the board’s University Affairs Committee, Stevens said, committee chair Chuck Duckett requested more time to vet Hannah-Jones. Then, he said, the Journalism Department changed course.
“It is my understanding that Dean Susan King elected to pursue a fixed-term appointment that did not come back to the University Affairs Committee, as none of them ever do,” Stevens said at a virtual press conference on Thursday. “Nikole Hannah-Jones agreed to a fixed-term faculty position. We will be welcoming her to the Hussman School faculty as a Knight Distinguished Chair this fall.”
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UNC System Board of Governors Approves 4 New Trustees for UNC-CH
The UNC System Board of Governors approved several new trustees for UNC-Chapel Hill during its monthly full board meeting.
The university system leadership approved Rob Bryan III, Perrin Jones, Malcom Turner and Ramsey White on Thursday morning, adding them to the ranks of the Chapel Hill university’s Board of Trustees.
Bryan, Jones and White’s appointments were unanimously approved, while Turner’s candidacy had a separate vote. While some system governors expressed concerns about Turner’s current role as head of strategy and corporate development for the sports gambling site DraftKings, his appointment also passed with an 18-6 vote.
i say down because it was over 60 degrees just a couple of hours ago. and elsewhere, it s down into the low to mid-40s farther to our west. hagerstown down to a cold 41 right now. it s about 20 degrees warmer in culpeper. it s 63 there. that cold air is going to come in on a gusty northwest wind. breaks in the clouds now. sunshine in and out this morning. sunrise at 7:20. we ll be right around 50 degrees for the rest of the morning in the metro area to around noontime and colder west and north, and then down into the 40s during the afternoon hours. colder tonight, maybe even a little precipitation. we ll talk about that in ten minutes. danella, how s traffic? good morning. on i-95 headed to laurel, your right lane is blocked. this is at 216. i ll give you a look right now. police on the scene of this accident. again, it s blocking the right side of the roadway. just stick to the left to get by. traffic is moving fine on the left. you will see some volume as you make your