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UNC’s Faculty Executive Committee met Monday morning to call for immediate action from the Board of Trustees after it chose to postpone review of acclaimed journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones’, tenure application.
Hannah-Jones was set to return to her alma mater as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, a tenured professorship. Now, the board’s decision to “take no action” on her tenure application has led to increasing community outrage.
UNC’s Faculty Executive Committee is made up of 14 faculty members from different disciplines at the university. The meet regularly to provide recommendations to campus leadership while representing the faculty voice.