{"id":1467369,"date":"2022-05-07T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T12:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467369"},"modified":"2022-05-07T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T12:44:45","slug":"unc-journalism-program-has-accreditation-downgraded-after-not-hiring-crackpot-1619-project-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unc-journalism-program-has-accreditation-downgraded-after-not-hiring-crackpot-1619-project-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Journalism Program Has Accreditation Downgraded After Not Hiring Crackpot 1619 Project Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Func-journalism-program-has-accreditation-downgraded-after-not-hiring-crackpot-1619-project-founder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>You may recall that last year <em>NY Times<\/em> journalist and 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah Jones was denied tenure by the University of North Carolina last year after she was offered a position <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/19\/business\/media\/nikole-hannah-jones-unc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the school<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In late April, the\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/hussman.unc.edu\/news\/pulitzer-prize-winning-macarthur-%E2%80%98genius%E2%80%99-nikole-hannah-jones-new-york-times-become-knight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">university announced<\/a> that Ms. Hannah-Jones was being appointed to the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at U.N.C.\u2019s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. She will start as a professor in July, while continuing to write for The Times Magazine. Instead of tenure, Ms. Hannah-Jones was offered a five-year contract as a professor, with an option for review\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The website\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpolicywatch.com\/2021\/05\/19\/pw-special-report-after-conservative-criticism-unc-backs-down-from-offering-acclaimed-journalist-a-tenured-position\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NC Policy Watch<\/a> reported on Wednesday that U.N.C.\u2019s board of trustees had declined to approve Ms. Hannah-Jones\u2019s application for tenure. A spokeswoman for the university, Joanne Peters Denny, said in a statement that \u201cdetails of individual faculty hiring processes are personnel protected information.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40 faculty members from the journalism school signed\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hussmanfaculty.medium.com\/stunned-unc-hussman-schfaculty-statement-on-nikole-hannah-jones-6333c5f5d072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an online statement<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday calling for the decision to be reversed, saying the failure to grant tenure to Ms. Hannah-Jones \u201cunfairly moves the goal posts and violates longstanding norms and established processes.\u201d The statement added, \u201cThis failure is especially disheartening because it occurred despite the support for Hannah-Jones\u2019s appointment as a full professor with tenure by the Hussman dean, Hussman faculty and university.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result of the controversy, Hannah Jones abandoned the position at UNC and took a position <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/allahpundit\/2021\/07\/06\/nikole-hannah-jones-to-unc-no-sorry-i-dont-want-tenure-at-your-school-now-n400638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at Howard University<\/a> instead. But it appears there\u2019s an institutional price to pay for hesitating to offer tenure to a Pulitzer Prize winner. Last week UNC\u2019s journalism school had its accreditation downgraded on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insightintodiversity.com\/unc-journalism-school-downgraded-to-provisional-accreditation-in-the-wake-of-dei-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equity grounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The change is due to the ACEJMC\u2019s concerns regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the school, especially in the wake of journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones turning down a tenured position because of administrative controversy surrounding her hiring\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he UNC Hussman School is dealing with an existential crisis both internally and externally,\u201d the ACEJMC wrote. \u201cThe [Hannah-Jones] controversy\u2026 exposed long-standing problems. Many stem from inconsistencies in executing the goals in the 2016 Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The accrediting body investigated last year and found that \u201cstudents were complaining about a lack of diversity and the use of \u2018culturally insensitive\u2019 classroom examples.\u201d Today a professor at the journalism school, which has been accredited since 1958, said students and faculty were being punished for a decision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/quicktakes\/2022\/05\/06\/unc-journalism-school-accreditation-downgraded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they didn\u2019t make<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t the journalism department that didn\u2019t want to tenure Nikole Hannah-Jones,\u201d Mimi Chapman, the council chair, said of the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist whose appointment for the job became a national story and a source of division on the campus last year. \u201cThat was a problem at the Board of Trustees level, which has been widely reported. The delay in the vote and the whole maneuvering behind the scenes is what produced this problem.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Chapman said she was not surprised about the decision, but she added, \u201cThe faculty and students bear the brunt for a situation that they didn\u2019t create, and that\u2019s a shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s a report from WRAL on the downgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that last year NY Times journalist and 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah Jones was denied tenure by the University of North Carolina last year after she was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}