"..In January 1996, the Regents of the University of Colorado created the new department, a year after the Ethnic Studies major was approved. With this bold move, the University of Colorado at Boulder has positioned itself as a national leader in the evolving academic field of ethnic studies..."
This is an interesting fact. It seem from my previous post Mr. Ward was inducted into the Keetoowah Band Cherokee in 1994, appears at the 1995 Arkansas Symposium and in 1996 the Regents create a Department of Ethnic studies and pick Ward with his shiny new tribal affiliation to Chair it.
Bet the Regents DON'T fire him, especially at the Boulder campus.
It looks to me like Churchill was angling to create a new department - more pay, etc. He's already lost that. Did UC know his tribal affiliation was essentially bogus? That could amount to academic fraud, and that *will* get him kicked out, tenure or no.