Master of Arts degree in Cross-Cultural Communications
Wonder whether a transcript is on file? It should indicate whether a thesis were submitted.
Posted on 02/23/2005 8:48:38 AM PST by freespirited
University of Illinois officials said Tuesday they can't locate Ward Churchill's master's thesis and aren't sure if he was required to write one.
The embattled University of Colorado ethnic-studies professor claims undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois' Springfield campus, which was known as Sangamon State University until 1995. Springfield is in Sangamon County.
University of Illinois at Springfield spokeswoman Cheryl Peck confirmed that Churchill received a bachelor's degree in 1974 and a master's degree in 1975. But no thesis is on file, she said.
"We can't say for sure he didn't write one," Peck said. It is not clear if a thesis was a requirement at the time Churchill received the degree in communications, she said.
CU spokeswoman Pauline Hale said she did not know if faculty members inquired about Churchill's thesis in 1991 before giving him tenure.
Documents released last week by CU indicate some faculty members had reservations about granting tenure to a professor who lacked a doctorate.
The documents are silent on a master's thesis.
On Tuesday, Illinois faculty members described Sangamon State - in the 1970s, when Churchill attended - as focused on innovative teaching methods, including an emphasis on social issues of the day.
The campus did not have academic departments. Instead, faculty members were rostered under interdisciplinary groupings, including Churchill's major, communications in a technological society.
Students could major in traditional subjects, such as history or English, but they could also design their own majors in consultation with the faculty.
Larry Golden, a political scientist and one of the original professors when Sangamon opened in 1970, said the school was not as freewheeling as it sounds.
Proposals for self-designed majors were given extensive faculty review, he said.
The campus served only juniors, seniors and master's-degree students. They would have taken the standard courses at a two-year college before coming to Sangamon.
The program included an "applied-studies term," in which students earned credit by working off campus. Projects ranged from working with a state legislator to community organizing.
The students were required to take part in a seminar and write journals or term papers as part of the program, Golden said.
"You couldn't just go to an anti-war rally in Washington and say, 'That's my experience,' " Golden said.
Well ask Churchill for a copy, I'm sure the vain ^& kept one if he wrote it...
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! What losers. This guy apparently was made a full professor by this school with just a bachelor's degree and a lot of hot air.
He wrote his thesis using smoke signals....
I've never, never heard of this.
Who's running these schools?
Larry, Moe & Curley? ROFLMAO
You'd think, being the farce that he is--he would try and be a little low key and not say outlandish things that draw attention to himself.
On second thought, he's been saying these things for years and no one has probably made any hay over them so he figured he was safe to continue. Maybe we really are changing the climate....
So, let me see here, we have a fully tenured head of a department at a State University in Colorado, and he does not have a PhD? Well that certainly fits his bogus story of being a native American. Phd must stand for "Piled High and Deep" in Churchill's case?
LOL!!!!!!!!!
I vaguely recall there were dozens of other candidates (was it 40?) for the head of CU's "ethnic studies" department, and that somehow Churchill won.
Funny for a guy with a bachelors and a made-up masters degree.
What a farce! The Buffalos were buffaloed by a charlatan with a pony tail and the gift of gab. Rampant political correctness prevented them from checking his whiny, self-aggrandizing story. The Indians he was supposed to have been allied with kept him at a safe distance. U of C took him to their bosom and got bit. Now let's see if they have the intellectual honesty to admit it and fire the guy for falsifying his credentials.
I told you folks that Churchill just blew himself in the foot. SO here is the bottom line. A school like CU boulder awarded a professor tenure without a doctorate AND a master THESIS? Meaning they didnt even READ one before granting tenure.
Here is the other point. If any professors at CU were denied tenure they will have a damn good case against the university and it will be costly.
As Brian Kilmeade said on Fox n' Friends this morning, "It seems that he really is not an Indian, but that he just liked F-Troop" was the funniest thing I have heard in awhile.
The guy is a total BS artist and Sangamon was a BS school. That's why it was dissolved an taken over by the University of Illinois.
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