Posted on 03/16/2005 7:59:55 PM PST by ajolympian2004
About 10 days ago we decided it was important to get a better handle on where alums stood regarding the controversies surrounding Professor Ward Churchill. We had received e-mails and phone calls from hundreds of you but felt a straw poll would give us a better picture of how alums felt about the Churchill issue.
The straw poll was e-mailed to 16,120 voting Alumni Association members -- annual and lifetime members -- who have given us authorization to send them e-mails.
The straw poll results are as follows:
* Forty-three percent voted that Churchill should be fired or sanctioned even though he has tenure. * Thirty-six percent voted that Churchill should remain a tenured professor without sanction or censure. * Finally, twenty-one percent indicated action should be withheld until a thorough investigation has been completed.
We forwarded these results to the Board of Regents, Chancellor Phil DiStefano and President Elizabeth Hoffman. You alums, who are Buffalum Notes readers, are the only other audience to receive these results directly from the Alumni Association. This was an informal poll, but we did collect individual names to prevent double voting. Individual votes remain anonymous.
As you can see even our alums are divided. The issue has many facets, as reported by the media during the past month. This week Chancellor DiStefano announced that he will release his review of Churchill on Monday, March 28. DiStefano said the extended timeline will enable he and his team to complete their work in compliance with normal university procedures.
The review will to determine whether Professor Churchill has overstepped his bounds as a faculty member.
Until then, we won't know what direction the university will take with the embattled professor. But our goal remains the same as it always has: to help our alums be heard on issues they feel are critical to maintaining the university's vitality.
For those of you who participated in the vote, thank you for your thoughtfulness and willingness to voice your concerns.
Our next poll will be e-mailed to Alumni Association members in two weeks.
Feel free to e-mail me at kent@cualum.org
Hope to CU around!
Work hard, play hard and definitely do good. There were 3,223 alums who voted during the 48-hour time limit. About 250 alums also e-mailed us their thoughts on the controversy.
The Flat Irons, a beautiful University and town, too many Liberals in my opinion.
When you are an outdoor athlete like myself you tend to view the liberals, leftists, communists and anarchists in Boulder and at CU as a nuisance. The hundreds of miles of running/hiking trails in Boulder County gives one plenty of opportunity to clear one's mind of the local political thought that may have creeped in. :)
That's what all these liberals do. They move into these pretty places and screw it up for everyone through their misguided legislation.
"The review will to determine whether Professor Churchill has overstepped his bounds as a faculty member."
When will they determine if he overstepped his bounds as a human being?
No, it means Heap Big Chief Running Fraud lost by 7%.
Liberals never seem to admit to losing votes.
Geeesh, only 43 percent believe in honor and truth. That is unreal. I think the positive results should have been in the high 80's with a few kooks supporting him and the rest undecided.
I might chalk up the 43% for firing Churchill in this poll to the fact that ony 3,000 out of about 16,000 voted. Those who didn't have a chance to vote probably didn't check their email in the required 48 hour time period because they were busy at work, raising their families, etc.
Fire Metal Ward.
Amazing! The pansy university administration can't make a deccision based on simple, basic facts. So they take a poll!
Excellent point. It still bothers me that so many "intelligent" (or at least educated) people feel that his actions were OK. I feel exactly like the great cartoon of the Statue of Liberty looking at the current USA and weeping.
Trust me, what goes around comes around, he will get his. Boulder is God's country and he will pay.
Nah, Americans are fair and like thoroughness before they turn on someone. Maybe the 20 percent undecided don't believe anything they read in the papers and are waiting. I think 18 % of them will come round. Note the 36 percent is almost identical to the percent of hard core dems in the electorate. Always there, always on the wrong side, a pain in the tush of the country.
I'm actually surprized that 43% of them recommended firing him. Since a vast majority of the folks polled are likely educators and liberals, I'd have expected the opposite. The poll is not likely to sway their minds much tho. Remember, this is Boulder, Co.
36% don't want him fired. I would have guessed the number would be more like 5%. I always assumed all the left leaning students I went to school with at CU, would have grown up by now.
Always there, always wrong
I apologize for altering your post but shen I saw it, BAM! this small alteration leaped out at me. Thx
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