Posted on 10/25/2021 1:18:15 PM PDT by karpov
On September 29, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) announced that it is investigating what it calls “egregious violations of principles of academic governance and persistent structural racism in the University of North Carolina System.” To do so, it has launched a special committee and will release its findings in early 2022.
According to the AAUP’s press release, the investigation was prompted by the “widely publicized mishandling of the tenure case of New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones.” But there has already been a significant—one might even say exhaustive—investigation of that incident. Local and national media outlets of all stripes have uncovered the relevant facts: policies that govern tenure and appointments at UNC, the timeline of events in Hannah-Jones’ tenure case, and emails from involved parties. A UNC employee even leaked a copy of Walter Hussman’s UNC donation agreement to the media. It’s unlikely that the AAUP will discover anything new.
Thus, the investigation will go far beyond the Hannah-Jones incident. According to AAUP’s press release, the report will also cover “the influence of the gerrymandered state legislature on the systemwide board of governors and campus boards of trustees” and “how the use of political pressure has obstructed meaningful faculty participation in the UNC system.” In short, the AAUP will be looking into all the things it doesn’t like about the UNC System: namely, its conservative Board of Governors and Board of Trustees, their statutory authority to oversee faculty appointments, and the Republican-controlled legislature that appointed them.
It’s a very thinly veiled attempt at intimidation in a power struggle between left-of-center faculty members and the governance structure that stops them from having completely free rein on campus.
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Didn’t they deny tenure to the liar who authored the fictitious 1619 Program or whatever that load of crap was titled?
1619 Project i believe
I wish Arizona would do more about the socialist drift of our universities. We need diversity of ideology on each campus faculty.
AAUP, like most unions, outed itself long ago as being as worthless as +!+$ on a boar hog.
They are so far left that even most moonbat professors quit paying their dues.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an American investigative journalist, known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. In April 2015, she became a staff writer for The New York Times. In 2017 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and in 2020 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her work on The 1619 Project. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications. Ta-Nehisi Coates will join Hannah-Jones at Howard as the Sterling Brown Chair in the English Department.[
She writes to discover and expose the systemic and institutional racism that she says are perpetuated by official laws and acts.
From 2008 to 2009, Hannah-Jones received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies which enabled her to travel to Cuba to study universal healthcare and Cuba’s educational system under Raul Castro.
Hannah-Jones produced a series of articles for a special issue of The New York Times Magazine titled The 1619 Project.[35] The ongoing initiative began August 14, 2019 and “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”
In the opening essay, Hannah-Jones wrote “No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed.”
In 2020, Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her work on the 1619 Project. The award cited her “sweeping, provocative and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America’s story, prompting public conversation about the nation’s founding and evolution.”
Her paper was criticized by historians Gordon S. Wood and Leslie M. Harris, specifically for asserting that “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.”
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute named the 1619 Project as one of the 10 greatest works of journalism in the decade from 2010 to 2019.
A Washington Free Beacon reporter highlighted a tweet from Hannah-Jones from May 2016 in which she quoted someone using the N-word. After being asked for comment, Hannah-Jones posted the reporter’s inquiry, which contained his work phone number, on Twitter.[65] In an interview with Slate, Hannah-Jones said, “I didn’t realize I was tweeting out his phone number, and when someone mentioned it, I should have deleted it. So absolutely. I did not intend to do that, and I wish that
I hadn’t.”
In June 2020, Jones apologized for retweeting a conspiracy theory claiming that fireworks were being set off by “government agents” to dampen the Black Lives Matter movement.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an American investigative journalist, known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. In April 2015, she became a staff writer for The New York Times. In 2017 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and in 2020 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her work on The 1619 Project. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications. Ta-Nehisi Coates will join Hannah-Jones at Howard as the Sterling Brown Chair in the English Department.[
She writes to discover and expose the systemic and institutional racism that she says are perpetuated by official laws and acts.
From 2008 to 2009, Hannah-Jones received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies which enabled her to travel to Cuba to study universal healthcare and Cuba’s educational system under Raul Castro.
Hannah-Jones produced a series of articles for a special issue of The New York Times Magazine titled The 1619 Project.[35] The ongoing initiative began August 14, 2019 and “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”
In the opening essay, Hannah-Jones wrote “No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed.”
In 2020, Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her work on the 1619 Project. The award cited her “sweeping, provocative and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America’s story, prompting public conversation about the nation’s founding and evolution.”
Her paper was criticized by historians Gordon S. Wood and Leslie M. Harris, specifically for asserting that “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.”
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute named the 1619 Project as one of the 10 greatest works of journalism in the decade from 2010 to 2019.
A Washington Free Beacon reporter highlighted a tweet from Hannah-Jones from May 2016 in which she quoted someone using the N-word. After being asked for comment, Hannah-Jones posted the reporter’s inquiry, which contained his work phone number, on Twitter.[65] In an interview with Slate, Hannah-Jones said, “I didn’t realize I was tweeting out his phone number, and when someone mentioned it, I should have deleted it. So absolutely. I did not intend to do that, and I wish that
I hadn’t.”
In June 2020, Jones apologized for retweeting a conspiracy theory claiming that fireworks were being set off by “government agents” to dampen the Black Lives Matter movement.
I knew i was on to something:
Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at University of North Carolina
Her hiring brought a backlash from conservatives concerned about her involvement in The Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, which examined the legacy of slavery in America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/business/media/nikole-hannah-jones-unc.html
Thanks Marv.
UNCheat under investigation?
Arizona is GOPe state with Doug Duouchebag as governor. I wouldn’t hold your breath.
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