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Showing Original Post only (View all)Nikole Hannah-Jones tells UNC "Thanks, but no thanks" [View all]
She got her tenure offer. And then turned them down.
Good for you, sister! Take your Pulitzer and go where you're respected and appreciated.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates to join Howard University faculty
Journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates are joining Howard Universitys faculty, school officials announced Tuesday in a major recruiting victory for the private institution in the nations capital.
The surprising development came less than a week after trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted to award tenure to Hannah-Jones. Initially, the public university hired her as a professor without the job-protection status. But its board of trustees approved tenure for her on Wednesday, after faculty and students at Chapel Hill protested that she had been mistreated.
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Now Hannah-Jones will have tenure at Howard in the new position of Knight Chair in Race and Journalism, starting this summer at the historically Black university in Washington.
I am so incredibly honored to be joining one of the most important and storied educational institutions in our country Hannah-Jones said in a statement. One of my few regrets is that I did not attend Howard as an undergraduate, and so coming here to teach fulfills a dream I have long carried.
Hannah-Jones will also found a Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard. She said it will aim to train journalism students from historically Black schools to accurately and urgently [cover] the challenges of our democracy with a clarity, skepticism, rigor and historical dexterity that is too often missing from todays journalism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/07/06/howard-nikole-hannah-jones-tanehisi-coates/
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But I love that she waited until they offered her tenure and THEN walked away
StarfishSaver
Jul 2021
#2
"Nice little school you have there. It would be a shame if you gave tenure to the wrong person."
Wounded Bear
Jul 2021
#7
I bled Carolina Blue for many decades. I attended Hippy Hill. But Koch's fucked it all up
Tommymac
Jul 2021
#9
Arguably they will be truly lauded at Howard, but far less "NEEDED" than at UNC
hlthe2b
Jul 2021
#11