The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s board of trustees is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, after weeks of mounting pressure to do so.

NC Policy Watch first reported Monday that trustees were expected to vote on Hannah-Jones’ tenure, citing two unnamed board members. A spokeswoman for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., which is representing Hannah-Jones, also confirmed to the New York Times that the board is set to vote on the matter. 

Hannah-Jones was supposed to begin her position as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism on July 1, but has said she won’t accept without tenure, which has been