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PW special report: After conservative criticism, UNC backs down from offering acclaimed journalist tenured position | NC Policy Watch

After conservative criticism, UNC backs down from offering acclaimed journalist a tenure-track position; Nikole Hannah-Jones

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Hasnain says:

This is just terrible. As someone bluntly put it, if racism can prevent such a renowned scholar and journalist (a Pulitzer Prize winner!) from getting a well deserved tenured appointment - which was approved by faculty already - then what hope does the average person have when everything is rigged against them?

“The Board of Governors has decided not to reappoint certain trustees they felt were not on the right ideological page, the trustee said, and have even engineered the ouster of chancellors with whom they disagreed. They have defunded academic centers and discontinued programs with which they were at political odds. Trustees across the system know that track record when they’re making these kinds of decisions, the trustee said.”

Posted on 2021-05-20T06:43:09+0000