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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 May 2021

      Let me point people to the 2012 appointment of a Knight Chair in journalism (same title) at UNC Hussman (same school) of a person who was an advertising executive (completely outside of academia and I believe similarly had only a masters degree). http://hussman.unc.edu/news/bbdo-executive-vice-president-joann-sciarrino-named-unc-knight-chair-digital-advertising-and … https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1395405733148205061 …pic.twitter.com/QY9Nt2rpe1

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 May 2021

      People want to argue whether she deserved tenure. That's not how it works. The faculty at the school previously believed an ad executive brought value to their students and hired her as a Knight professor, a position endowed exactly to bring industry people to tenured positions.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 May 2021

      The point of academic freedom isn't for universities to hire and tenure people others like. It's based on faculty evaluation and external reviews. Once political appointees start meddling—at the last minute—based on viewpoints and external campaigns, you get the chilling effect.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 May 2021

      Did anyone have a campaign demanding that UNC not hire an advertising executive as a Knight professor because she didn't have an academic background? People outside of academia getting tenured, especially at professional schools, does happen and isn't against any rules or norms.

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    5. Joe McConnell‏ @jmcconnell53 21 May 2021
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      I agree with everything you have said!! I do lots of work in higher ed, and "tenure" for this type of appointment is pretty odd. Most places, this would be a nontenured Prof. of the Practice which would be fully protected by academic freedom, but without a "tenure" designation.

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    6. Zak Whose Topical Reference Has Expired‏ @zsitter 21 May 2021
      Replying to @jmcconnell53 @zeynep

      There is no "this type of appointment." An endowed chair in journalism, endowed as "part of a national effort to recruit top professionals into the ranks of tenured professors," is unique, or nearly so. Tenure is obviously not odd for a position created with this goal in mind!

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    7. Joe McConnell‏ @jmcconnell53 21 May 2021
      Replying to @zsitter @zeynep

      I’m not sure if “ability to read” is meant as an insult of some sort (Twitter brooks no subtly), but if so, I did read it, and my mere observation that this an unusual appointment remains true (along with my statement that I agree with all your observations here).

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 May 2021
      Replying to @jmcconnell53 @zsitter

      Not you! I was more pointing out that people can figure out that this type appointment had happened before and the whole point of the endowed chair was to bring such people to tenured positions. Saw a lot of people missing that basic point today.

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