Posted on 06/28/2005 4:28:25 PM PDT by freespirited
CU-Boulder professor Ward Churchill might be off his game.
Students in his Native American studies classes gave him lower marks last semester than in past years.
His GPA: 2.88
In one class, "Topical Issues/ Native North America," 52 students gave Churchill an average of three Cs, two Bs as well as a D-plus for "accessibility."
Students in his other two classes, "American Indians in Film" and "FBI on Pine Ridge" gave Churchill mostly As and Bs.
The firebrand professor earned only As and Bs from fall 2002 through fall 2004.
The grades, gathered through end-of-semester Faculty Course Questionnaires, are used by deans and departments to assess teaching performance.
Churchill sparked a nationwide controversy this spring by refusing to back down from an essay he wrote in 2001 about the World Trade Center attacks. In the essay, he called some victims "little Eichmanns," a reference to Nazi bureaucrat and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
The Herd, an arm of the CU Alumni Association, voted this spring in an online survey of about 2,100 students to bestow Churchill with a Teaching Recognition Award, a prize that comes with a $500 bonus.
The association decided to delay giving the award to Churchill pending the outcome of an inquiry by the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct.
The committee is investigating allegations Churchill copied other scholars' work and his claim he is Native American.
Churchill also won a Teaching Excellence Award from the faculty assembly in 1994. A portrait of Churchill in Norlin Library associated with the award vanished in February and was returned anonymously days later.
On his resume, Churchill lists about 20 "selected honors," including the 1997 Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Books on Human Rights for his book, "From A Native Son."
this does not make sense to me. it IS a university, after all.
I'm as much in shock as you are.
Ward has to be authentic...I am pretty sure I saw him in an episode of "F-Troop"
Isn't that illegal discrimination based upon one's "former state of surfitude?"
Judging from the appearance and bad smells these clowns brought to the interview --- I doubt any entered the ocean...
Semper Fi
I guess UCSC did its job, then. They successfully matriculated the beach bums into degreed bums.
Must have been one of their graduates, immaculate suit and all, who still stunk like a wet goat even 20 paces away, during the original King Tut exhibit in L.A. Every window on our tour bus was wide open.
No way a business can "reasonably accomodate" that.
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