Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The New York Times Magazine, was denied a tenured position at the University of North Carolina after the university’s board of trustees took the highly unusual step of failing to approve the journalism department’s recommendation.
On Wednesday, the decision drew criticism from faculty members who said that the last two people in the position Hannah-Jones will hold were granted tenure upon their appointment.
In late April, the university announced that Hannah-Jones was being appointed to the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. She will start as a professor in July, while continuing to write for The Times Magazine. Instead of tenure, Hannah-Jones was offered a five-year contract as a professor, with an option for review.
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South Carolina lawmakers end formal session, to return soon
By MEG KINNARDMay 13, 2021 GMT
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina’s Legislature is ending its regular session on Thursday, ceremonially wrapping up its duties but expecting at least several returns later in the year to handle more work, including how to spend federal funding related to the coronavirus pandemic.
How to deal with allocations from federal COVID-19 relief money will be top on the list. State senators last month approved a $10 billion spending package, which included an infusion of $1.7 billion in federal money and economic growth that was not previously part of a House-approved measure.