After Contentious Debate, UNC Grants Tenure To Nikole Hannah-Jones
Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted Wednesday afternoon at a closed session to give tenure to star New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones several months after refusing to consider her proposed tenure.
The case inspired a bruising debate over race, journalism and academic freedom. It led both to national headlines and anger and distress among many Black faculty members and students at UNC. Some professors there have publicly said they were reconsidering their willingness to remain at the university over the journalist's treatment.
"We welcome Nikole Hannah-Jones back to campus," the UNC's board vice chairman, Gene Davis, said at the close of statements after the three-hour special session of the trustees. "Our university
