Churchill Landed Tenure Without Usual Review Process (& he doesn't have a doctorate)

DEnver's ABC News ^ | Feb. 16, 2005 | AP

[FairOpinion]

Prof. Considered An American Indian Expert Even Though He Does Not Have Doctorate

A University of Colorado official urged a faculty appointment for controversial professor Ward Churchill despite questions about his academic credentials, according to college e-mails from more than a decade ago.

Churchill landed a tenured faculty position less than a year later, bypassing the usual six-year academic review, according to correspondence between then-Vice Chancellor for Academic Services Kaye Howe and Dean of Arts and Sciences Charles Middleton.

The documents released by CU do not explain why Churchill was able to avoid the normal process for getting tenure, which gives a high measure of job security to faculty. Scholars have questioned Churchill's conclusions for years, and some have suggested he lied about being an Indian to land his job at CU.

[FairOpinion]

I have never heard of a tenured professor at an accredited university, who didn't have a Ph.D.

[Diogenesis]

The accreditation process IS A JOKE.

U of C's accreditation MUST be downgraded NOW.

[goldstategop]

Nope. You can get away with a Masters' at a community college but for tenured work at a four year academic institution - a Ph.D is a must. I've never heard of someone being hired as professor who didn't have one or wasn't in the process of completing the Ph.D requirements. Ward Churchill's case is extremely unusual to say the least. He's more of a political activist than a serious scholar.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[APFel]

I like where this episode with Mr. Churchill is going. Perhaps now we can start examining the monkey business that goes on in state funded schools.

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[FreeKeys]

Hmmm. A demonstration of how political correctness is used by criminals to intimidate their way into permanent employment, among other things.

HANG TENure!

[John Valentine]

The only place I hope that this goes is with the State of Colorado in Mr. Churchill's rear view mirror.

[Ready4Freddy]

Churchill tenure questioned: Professor was granted job security without usual review process

[Mo1]

Prof. Considered An American Indian Expert Even Though He Does Not Have Doctorate

Ummm .. how did he ever get the job?

I wonder if he even has a degree of any kind

[FairOpinion]

Now I am wondering, whether he has a Master's or whether he has even a college degree. They don't say that he does.

One would think, they would say, he holds a BS in from U of ... and a MS in ... from ..., but NOTHING.
Look at this little excerpt:

"Beginning in the late 1970s, Churchill was a teacher and administrator in programs that provided tutoring, counseling and other support for minority students. He later lectured on Indian topics in the ethnic studies program, which later became the ethnic studies department."

He wasn't even a "real teacher".

[airedale]

I asked a couple of the MSM press in Denver about this issue. They told me that in certain cases that universities are often willing to substitute work or life experience for the PhD especially when PhD's in that field are in short supply. They said it often happens in Journalism Departments when someone with a lot of experience joins the faculty.

[Deb]

It just proves that any Marxist clown can be head of something as phony as an "ethnic studies" department. Maybe this will be the first blow that brings down that fraud.

[goldstategop]

Now, an academic institution is completely justified in waiving the rules for someone famous and who has accomplishments as a scholar, researcher, explorer, or entrepreneur in the non-academic world. Such a person would onbviously enrich a university and its students in ways that can't be measured by the mere possession of a degree. Ward Churchill is none of the above. And its a mystery how the rules were waived for a complete non-entity like him.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[spokeshave]

Well....if he has a masters degre......where is the transcript of the thesis.......?

Or does he join shrillary with an "unavailable" thesis....

Anyone....?

[technomage]

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

Good show!

[goldstategop]

"Lots of experience" being the operative word here. I think faculty politics are more important than the applicant's qualifications or lack of them. The one apparent thing on our nation's campi is virtually every one thinks alike.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[FairOpinion]

NOT "REAL" universities.

[goldstategop]

A masters' degree does NOT require completion of a thesis. If you can pass a comp exam, you can skip writing a thesis altogether. I wrote a thesis for my masters.' I'd be interested in hearing what score Churchill obtained on his comp exam.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[ozzymandus]

He doesn't have to have a PhD any more than he has to be a real Indian. It's a perfect fit to have a phony professor in a phony department.

[okie01]

Ummm .. how did he ever get the job?

I wonder if he even has a degree of any kind

He applied under Affirmative Action, as a Native American. He lied.

He's got a pissant MA from a pissant school -- Sangamon State in Illinois, which was a radical hotbed at the time.

[Howlin]

I like where this episode with Mr. Churchill is going

Me, too!