Nikole Hannah-Jones will not join UNC faculty without tenure

Nikole Hannah-Jones' legal team said in a letter that the award-winning journalist won't accept any "inferior terms of employment" at UNC.Marcus Ingram / Getty Images fileThe award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will not join the faculty at University of North Carolina “without the protection and security of tenure,” her legal team said this week in a letter to school officials following weeks of controversy over the board of trustees’ failure to grant her tenure.

“Since signing the fixed-term contract, Ms. Hannah-Jones has come to learn that political interference and influence from a powerful donor contributed to the Board of Trustees’ failure to consider her tenure application,” the letter reads. “In light of this information, Ms. Hannah-Jones cannot trust that the University would consider her tenure application in good faith during the period of the fixed-term contract.

UNC-Chapel Hill's board of trustees decided not to approve tenure for Hannah-Jones at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media after backlash from conservatives who condemned her hiring. Instead, the university offered her a five-year fixed term with eligibility for tenure review at the end. Among Hannah-Jones's critics was Walter E. Hussman Jr., a mega-donor for whom the journalism school is named. According to the news site

, Hussman said in an email to the school’s dean, Susan King, “I worry about the controversy of tying the UNC journalism school to the 1619 project.”

Good for her. She knows her worth and when she is being put down due to her race and gender.

How entitled she is to demand tenure upon entering a professorship.

I have approved her for Gitmo.

A variation on the “Republicans pounce” theme in mainstream media.

Nor should she. Disgraceful.

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