Posted on 05/24/2021 8:12:46 AM PDT by karpov
Last week, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees came under fire for “viewpoint discrimination” over its decision not to offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, who will join UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism in July. An anonymous source reported that the decision was “a very political thing.”
But politics needn’t have come into it at all. For one thing, the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees has a long history of granting tenure to left-leaning faculty members—if the political make-up of the school is anything to go by. But more important is Hannah-Jones’ own record. Her history of shoddy journalism, unprofessional conduct, and lack of scholarship is more than enough to disqualify her from tenure at any university.
These shortcomings have been well-documented.
In December of 2019, five historians, led by Princeton Professor Sean Wilentz, wrote an open letter expressing their “strong reservations about important aspects of The 1619 Project.” The signatories were a politically diverse group: Victoria Bynum at Texas State University, James M. McPherson at Princeton, James Oakes at City University of New York, and Gordon S. Wood at Brown University. They called attention to serious factual errors in the project, including its central thesis that the American Revolution was fought to protect the institution of slavery:
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The did not give her tenure, but they still hired her to indoctrinate students.
Looks like the adults are in charge there, while the Pulitzer folks need to get politics out of their decision making process.
How many conservative Christian republicans have tenure? You want to find some”viewpoint discrimination” look into that!
She has no academic qualifications whatsoever for the position. She is still getting a five-year contract but I suppose she feels she is entitled to tenure without having to work or it. Poor Nicole.
Her history of shoddy journalism, unprofessional conduct, and lack of scholarship
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