Now, more information is coming out about Hannah-Jones tenure opponent,
Walter E. Hussman
Jr. for whom UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media is named. In 2019, the UNC alumnus, newspaper publisher, and megadonor donated $25 million to the school, the largest it had ever received.
In emails acquired by the Assembly, Hussman said he was worried about the controversy of “tying the UNC journalism school to the 1619 project.” In December 2020, Hussman wrote emails to UNC Hussman dean
Susan King, and university chancellors
Kevin Guskiewicz and
David Routh, that characterized Hannah-Jones as less than objective, writing “I find myself more in agreement with Pulitzer prize-winning historians like James McPherson and Gordon Wood than I do Nikole Hannah-Jones. These historians appear to me to be pushing to find the true historical facts.”
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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Donor s concerns voiced before Hannah-Jones tenure stalled
A major University of North Carolina donor whose name is on its journalism school voiced concerns about the schoolâs hiring of investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in the weeks before her application for tenure was halted
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FILE - In this May 21, 2016, file photo, Nikole Hannah-Jones attends the 75th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school s reported decision to back away from offering a tenured teaching position to Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones work on the countryâs history of slavery has drawn the ire of conservatives. A report in NC Policy Watch on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 said Hannah-Jones was to be offered a tenured professorship as the Knight Chair in
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