Posted on 05/12/2021 4:38:49 AM PDT by karpov
The recent hiring of New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones as a faculty member in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism raises serious red flags about how the university is being run.
Last week, the Martin Center’s Jay Schalin reported on Hannah-Jones’s appointment to the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at UNC. Hannah-Jones is the founder of the infamous 1619 Project, which seeks to reframe American history as fundamentally racist.
As Schalin notes, Hannah-Jones’s hiring “signals a degradation of journalistic standards,” which should deter any serious student from applying to the journalism school.
Given Hannah-Jones’s questionable credentials, how did she get hired at North Carolina’s flagship research university? The most likely explanation is that unaccountable faculty and administrators made the executive decision to hire her without any involvement by the university’s Board of Trustees.
How could that happen? Don’t trustees have legal oversight of the institution, including faculty hires?
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Remove UNC’s accreditation.
How the university is being run.? Suddenly... Wow, look at that..??
I think I'm going to go buy me a new pair of boots...
Well this article restores some of my faith in people, but given the shift toward praising sophists in English classes, it seems like something that shouldn’t be a legitimate thing (malicious lying) has become high art and a recognized credential.
If you lean towards Satan, yer being fairly successful, imo.
They are so right about the groupthink.
My Dad was in business for many years between Durham and Chapel Hill, and he always said that people from Duke and UNC are crazy.
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