“As we close out Women’s History Month, it is inspiring to recognize how fortunate we are to live in this community where so many enlightened women have contributed to our mutual development.”
The Black Women’s Organizing Archive at Penn State’s Center for Black Digital Research held its first annual Digitize Black Women’s Records Day on Tuesday in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Freeman Auditorium.
Penn State is hosting several events in celebration of Women s History Month in March with the theme: “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.”
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Statement on BOT’s Decision Regarding Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Appointment
As members of the faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, we write to express our alarm about the recent denial of tenure of Nikole Hannah-Jones for an endowed Knight professorship at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Should the UNC Board of Trustees’ decision stand, it has implications that extend far beyond the facts of this case. We address three of those issues below.
Our first concern is about shared governance and the belief in the integrity and professionalism of the process that allows us to recruit, hire, and retain world-class scholars, researchers, and writers. The denial of tenure of Nikole Hannah-Jones has already drawn world-wide scrutiny about the fairness of that process. So far that scrutiny has played itself out in the press and on social media platforms. Of course, damage to and loss of reputation devastates people but such damage also does incalcu