Tenure for prize-winning journalist expected to be discussed at UNC-Chapel Hill board meeting
Hours before half of its members leave the board, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees has set a special meeting for Wednesday afternoon at which the controversy over tenure for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is expected to come up.
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Hannah-Jones, a UNC-Chapel Hill alumna and a New York Times reporter, was hired in April as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the university's Hussman School of Journalism and Media. She won the Pulitzer, a Peabody Award and a "genius grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for "The 1619 Project" about slavery's impact on America.
But the board will meet at 3 p.m. Wednesday, with part of the meeting in closed session, university officials announced Monday.
The move came after Student Body President Lamar Richards petitioned for a meeting on Hannah-Jones' tenure. Other board members then followed suit.
The terms for six of the 13 trustees end Wednesday, including Chairman Richard Stevens and Charles Duckett, the trustee whose questions about Hannah-Jones' academic credentials led the board to delay a vote last winter. Six new trustees will take their seats in July.
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