Another theory: you have no idea what you're talking about. It wasn't automatic—there was a process where the faculty voted to hire her with tenure. The two previous Knight professors to the same school were hired from the industry *with* tenure and they also had no PhDs.
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Replying to @zeynep @ZaidJilani
If you don't understand what's normal and what's not in a university, maybe hold off on claiming "this is completely normal", or ask someone who knows. What happened was profoundly abnormal —cannot remember a precedent—and that's true regardless of what anyone thinks of her work.
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Replying to @zeynep @ZaidJilani
And finally, the profound abnormality of the process means that this has implications way beyond one particular person: for any academic already at UNC or considering UNC, and for academic freedom in general. We could do with less uninformed bluster.
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