Posted on 08/26/2006 10:54:54 PM PDT by george76
The University of Colorado student union voted Thursday in support of firing tenured ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill.
The union's legislative council voted 9-6 in favor of a resolution supporting former Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano's recommendation to fire Churchill for plagiarism and research misconduct.
The resolution will be sent to the student government's tri-executives and will go into effect if two of the three student leaders sign it.
"This is not a problem that is attached to the entire ethnic studies department — just a not-so-good professor and he doesn't deserve to be employed here," ...
"He takes away from the value of our degree."
Churchill drew national attention over an essay that compared some Sept. 11 victims to a notorious Nazi.
A subsequent investigation into Churchill's work found that he committed serious, repeated and deliberate research misconduct, prompting the chancellor's recommendation that he be fired.
Churchill, who denies any wrongdoing, is expected to have a hearing this fall before the school's Privilege and Tenure Committee, which will re-evaluate DiStefano's recommendation.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
These votes are taking forever.
The process is proceeding. Sort of.
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I'm sure he's already got another job lined up at a school or liberal think tank. You would think he would just leave with some shred of dignity, but he's too arrogant and dumb to even do that. What a pathetic loser.
The ONLY way Churchill leaves the CU payroll, is he dies.
There is not enough courage or professionalism within the entire CU faculty or management to run the bastard off.
Semper Fi
Why is there an ethnic studies department? Isn't anthropology enough?
He has already hit the lecture circuit and likely will try to do a book deal.
But he has no dignity.
Plus he makes about $100,000 from the taxpayers with the summer and every holiday off and paid. Then he gets benefits like health care, pension...
Maybe he works eight hours per week ?
This should not be a whole department.
A most, a one semester class.
IMO.
There were large newspaper ads and rallies for Ward by the other professors.
It has quieted down some now, but the liberals in Boulder are off the wall.
Ward is a pretty good sized boy, and combined with his manner, it's been pretty good protection for him over his life.
Dude needs an @$$ whuppin'.
Somehow I think it is wrong that it is easier to adopt a child than it is to fire a tenured professor. It may be me, I'm kinda nutty that way I guess....
The conclusion one must draw from such examples isn't that every institution has its bad apples but rather that, at least in the liberal arts in America, moral turpitude and political hucksterism pervades higher education.
Radical criminals with questionable academic credentials flourish in a milieu that bristles with hostility toward real scholars who don't toe the party line—witness the case of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers.
Individuals with prison records or FBI rap sheets don't get into major educational institutions because they fudge their resumes.
They get in because they share the political dogmas of those who hire them—and they flourish for the same reason.
http://www.pirateballerina.com/blog/entry.php?id=397
They must model themselves after the UN; time to get off the pot.
He's probably too hot for any university to touch, but I wonder if some school in Ithaca, NY, will make him an offer.
Turd Churchill is a moron who should be ignored.
When did the Cleavers adopt a Musk Ox?
Or speech writer for Cindy Sheehan.
It's taking forever, but at least it sort of moving.
The university has made many of their alumni very unhappy.
They are also keeping their wallets and check books closed.
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