Campus messages in support of tenure for Nikole-Hannah Jones
On June 19, Chair of the Faculty Mimi Chapman sent a message addressed to the campus community urging schools, departments and individuals to speak out in one voice in favor of academic freedom, especially as it pertains to granting tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones.
We have collected all of the statements sent to us as well as others that were publicly available on websites, by The Daily Tar Heel and on Twitter.
School, departmental and other UNC affiliate statements are listed below. In addition we were copied on numerous letters and emails from individual faculty members, alumni, current students, donors and staff.
Deans/Schools
- College of Arts and Sciences dean
- Adams School of Dentistry dean and executive committee
- School of Education
- School of Information and Library Science
- Hussman School of Journalism and Media faculty [multiple statements], the dean and several board members also released statements after the BOT vote on June 30
- Kenan-Flagler Business School faculty
- School of Law faculty
- School of Medicine department chairs and center directors
- Eshelman School of Pharmacy dean and executive committee
- Gillings School of Global Public Health dean
- School of Social Work faculty
Academic departments
College of Arts and Sciences
- African, African American and Diaspora Studies
- American Studies
- Applied Physical Sciences
- Art and Art History
- Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Biology
- Chemistry
- City and Regional Planning
- Classics
- Communication
- Computer Science faculty
- Dramatic Art faculty and Playmakers Repertory Company
- English and Comparative Literature
- Environment, Ecology and Energy Program executive committee
- Exercise and Sport Science
- Geography
- Geological Sciences
- Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures chair
- Global Studies
- History
- Linguistics
- Marine Sciences
- Mathematics tenured faculty
- Music
- Peace, War, and Defense
- Political Science
- Psychology and Neuroscience
- Public Policy chair
- Race, Difference, and Power Concentration, Department of Anthropology
- Religious Studies
- Romance Studies
- Sociology
- Statistics and Operations Research
- Women’s and Gender Studies
School of Medicine
- Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Cell Biology & Physiology
- Medicine [Department of]
- Social Medicine
Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Health Behavior
- Health Policy and Management
- Maternal and Child Health
- Nutrition
- Public Health Leadership Program
Other UNC affiliates
- African Studies Center and Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
- American Association of University Professors UNC-CH Chapter
- Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee [University-wide]
- Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
- Campus Safety Commission
- Campus Y Executive Board
- Carolina Asia Center
- Carolina Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists
- Carolina Black Caucus
- Carolina Performing Arts
- Carolina Population Center
- Center for Faculty Excellence
- Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies
- Center for the Study of the American South
- Chair of the Faculty Mimi Chapman
- Chancellor’s Science Scholars Program
- Committee on the Status of Women
- Digital and Lifelong Learning
- Employee Forum executive committee
- Faculty Executive Committee
- Family Journey’s Co-Lab
- First-Generation Student Association Executive Board
- Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Gillings School of Global Public Health Leadership Program
- Graduate Student Association of the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Ida B. Wells Society
- Institute of Marine Sciences faculty
- Leaders in Medical Student Education
- Library Association at UNC-Chapel Hill
- Lineberger Equity Council
- The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
- Playmakers Repertory Company [with faculty from Department of Dramatic Art]
- Residence Hall Association
- Retired Faculty Association executive committee
- UE 150 The Workers Union at UNC
- UNC Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward
- UNC faculty members
