New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, the founder of the controversial 1619 Project, lost her alma mater’s offer for tenure and is now under consideration for a fixed five-year contract as a professor of practice for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The change comes less than a month after the announcement that Hannah-Jones would be joining UNC’s staff, serving as a Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the university.

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