Posted on 10/18/2006 4:02:02 PM PDT by george76
Professor's fate may not be decided until well into next year.
The University of Colorado's efforts to fire Ward Churchill are on hold because of a dispute over whether the university has to come up with $20,000 in state funds for the professor's defense.
Churchill's attorney, David Lane, said a lawsuit to get the money could be filed by next week.
Meantime, there's been no progress on Churchill's appeal since August, and it could be well into 2007 before a final decision on his fate is made.
CU spokeswoman Michele McKinney said the delay is outside of the administration's control.
Churchill's appeal is being heard by a faculty committee that operates independently from the administration.
"The president did forward Professor Churchill's request for a review in early July," McKinney said. "We've been ready to move forward since that time."
Weldon Lodwick, CU professor of math and chairman of the faculty's Privilege and Tenure Committee, said he named a five-member panel on Aug. 10 to hear Churchill's appeal.
The process is supposed to take about 90 days. But Lodwick agreed to put the proceedings on hold until Nov. 6 so Churchill and Lane could resolve their disagreement with the university over the defense funds.
Lane says CU must provide up to $20,000 for Churchill's defense because a Faculty Senate policy published on a CU Web site stated that the money would be available to any professor going through a dismissal for cause hearing.
CU officials have said the faculty asked the Board of Regents in December 2002 to sign off on that policy, but that the regents never did.
The money has not been made available to anyone else, and won't be approved for Churchill, they said.
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Plus benefits, vacation days, holidays, health plan, summer paid...?
Maybe 2007 ?
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Maybe living in a liberal cocoon and negotiating money from liberals is the way to go..
By the time they finally get him out of there, he will be long past retirement age.
Education funding.
$10 says he's on the payroll this time next year.
The taxpayers gotta pony up $20G for the university to give to the professor to defend against his firing by same university? That is ridiculous! It is true. Reality is stranger than fiction.
easy money.
He may " work " six hours per week ?
At most, this should be a one semester class...not a whole department.
IMHO.
" The taxpayers gotta pony up $20G for the university to give to the professor to defend against his firing by same university? "
What a country !
CU officials have said the faculty asked the Board of Regents in December 2002 to sign off on that policy, but that the regents never did.
End of lawsuit.
It would be nice to end this now.
But with Ward making around $100,000 per year plus benefits, they want to run the clock out...to 2007 or beyond.
SWEET Ann Coulter takes another look at the Ward Churchill controversy:
Tenure was supposed to create an atmosphere of open debate and inquiry, but instead has created havens for talentless cowards who want to be insulated from life.
Rather than fostering a climate of open inquiry, college campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banned words and prohibited scientific inquiry.
Even leftists don't try to defend Churchill on grounds that he is Galileo pursuing an abstract search for the truth.
They simply invoke "free speech," like a deus ex machina to end all discussion.
Like the words "diverse" and "tolerance," "free speech" means nothing but: "Shut up, we win."
Nope. Construction unions, unlike their industrial counterparts are guilds.
Academic freedom, and its guarantor, tenure, are the God-given freedoms to be given protection by our civilization: speculation within the walls of a university was shielded from the reach of the Inquisition.
And like freedom of speech, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, they only work by protecting the good and the bad.
Churchill has committed academic dishonesty to the point that dismissal from a tenured post is warranted--the analogue of obscenity vis-a-vis freedom of speech, or providing probably cause vis-a-vis search and seizure.
However, if CU, in defense of academic freedom has a stated policy of paying for the defense against charges of academic misconduct, then, yes, the taxpayers should pony up, just as they do for a public defender, even if an indigent perpetrator was filmed commiting the crime. A one-time $20K payout to get Ward Churchill off the payroll and out of the classroom sounds like a bargain to me.
Ward Churchill is an academic charlatan and deserves to be fired, but I get sick and tired of the 'work six hours a week' crack about us professors.
It's like saying lawyers are only working when they are in a courtroom.
The word 'first' got omitted from my post in reply to yours:
. . .first God-given freedoms. . .
Freedom within a university predates the American Founding by a good five centuries.
fair enough. Well stated.
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