my understanding is the one thing tenure doesn't protect a professor from is academic fraud, seems to me CU should have a strong case on those grounds
not their fault that the academic fraud came to light as a result of the glare of the media spotlight on Churchill
or can one only surmise the university has the goods but not the guts to do it, as others have commented or maybe they don't have the goods or they aren't bothering to get the goods
I think if I were an alumni, esp of the big money donating kind I would call up CU and said if you offer this schmuck a buyout when you could prove academic fraud and fire him for cause, you just lost my yearly donation, let the loser sue us and we'll smear his name so he won't get a job as a janitor on the local reservation, oops I mean we will unveil the truth about this fraud so good..........because $500,000 - $1 million dollars will do a lot more good on campus than going into the schmuck's pocket, not to mention this sets a bad precedent and CU has already been damaged financially by this shmuck, so they are going to need every penny