Lawyer: Suspension recommended for prof. [Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies..]

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[Sub-Driver]

Lawyer: Suspension recommended for prof.

16 minutes ago

A University of Colorado committee has recommended that a controversial professor accused of faulty research be suspended for one year rather than fired, his attorney said.

Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, touched off a national firestorm with an essay that compared some of the 2001 World Trade Center victims to Adolf Eichmann, a key planner of the Holocaust.

It was some of his other work, however, that led an interim chancellor of the Boulder campus and an another committee to recommended Churchill be fired.

The professor was accused of misrepresenting the effects of federal laws on American Indians, wrongly claiming evidence indicated Capt. John Smith exposed Indians to smallpox in the 1600s, and claiming the work of a Canadian environmental group as his own.

After the firing recommendations, he requested a review by the university faculty's Privilege and Tenure Committee.

Churchill attorney David Lane said Tuesday that he didn't think Churchill should be disciplined at all, but he said the Privilege and Tenure Committee members were at least moving in the "right direction."

"This will make it more difficult for Hank Brown (president of the University of Colorado system) and the regents to fire him," Lane said.

Brown could still decide to fire Churchill, give him a lesser punishment or close the case.

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jerks

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Want to bet this preposterous fraud draws a university paycheck while sitting home ?

[yldstrk]

No intestinal fortitude.

[TheThinker]

I hate academia. There is no accountability for professors, therefore they tenure people with little intellectual talent.

[Lexington Green]

Our commie-infested universities need a thorough housecleaning.

[wideawake]

Little Chamberlains.

[GuineaRabbit]

Does this mean students are now free to plagiarise and copy off each other’s tests?

I guess keeping Ward Churchill around speaks volumes about how Academic Dishonesty is viewed at that farce of a university.

The Dept of Education should revoke its accreditation.

[3AngelaD]

I knew they would wimp out. I hope Hank Brown can bring himself to do the right thing.

[sgtbono2002]

What a cowardly deed.

[BubbaBasher]

Can you say Affirmative Action? I knew ya could.

[Congressman Billybob]

So a committee of his fellow "professors" only think he should be suspended for a year, rather than fired? For multiple instances of plagiarism and lying about academics, Indian artwork, and Indian heritage? This says a lot more about the abysmal quality of the rest of the faculty, than it does about Ward (I cheat everybody) Churchill.

Congressman Billybob

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[ishabibble]

The old “Hurry up and forget” ploy that works so well in the academic world. BTW, will Big Chief FullOShiite still be getting his paycheck? Maybe we should pass the hat!

[freekitty]

No, firing sounds like the more fitting punishment of the two.

[erikm88]

The Dept. of Education does not determine accreditation. The North Central Association does: http://www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org/

I do not know if they would be much help, but, academic dishonesty by a tenured "professor" is pretty serious.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The NCA revoked the accreditation of one of the schools at University of Iowa while I was there. Its rare but it can happen.

[LtKerst]

this is what happens when Leftist lying Scum get caught..

slap on the wrist...wait a while and restore to prior
position...

they are all scum.

[Calvin Locke]

Ack! I’m getting old. I thought the post said “ethic studies”.

[colorado tanker]

Unfreakenbelievable.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Want to bet this preposterous fraud draws a university paycheck while sitting home ?”

You read my mind : )

[george76]

Thanks.

The Privilege and Tenure Committee’s chairman, professor Weldon Lodwick...