Members of a University of Colorado panel assigned to investigate controversial professor Ward Churchill are recommending that he be fired or suspended.
The members weren't in full agreement on the punishment for Churchill. A final decision rests with the CU chancellor and other senior officials.
The panel was in agreement that Churchill's academic methods are "impoverished." The members said his initial reaction to anyone who criticizes him is to "attack" them.
The panel said Churchill misrepresented the General Allotment Act, falsified claims about the Indian Arts and Crafts Act, fabricated historical research and plagiarized other works.
"Some of this I see as being transparently ridiculous, laughable," Churchill told the AP in response.
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Panel on Churchill: Fire or suspend him
(The Denver Post 5/17)
CU committee blasts Ward Churchill (The Denver Rocky Mountain News 5/17)
Misconduct found in prof's career (The Springfield State Journal Register 5/17)
Controversial professor accused of plagiarism (AP 5/17)
CU Investigation:
Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill (May 2006)
Newspaper Investigation:
Shadows
of doubt (The Denver Rocky Mountain News June 2005)
Churchill's 9/11 Essay:
"Some
People Push Back" On the Justice of Roosting Chickens (Pockets of Resistance
September 2001)
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