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07-24-2007, 11:07 PM
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Professor fired at Colorado...
Controversial Professor Ward Churchill has been fired by the Colorado Board Of Regents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25professor.html
CU President Hank Brown (University of Colorado Delt and former US Senator) made the announcement today.
Churchill was fired because of allegedly falsified academic credentials and plagerism claims that the firing was really because of an article he wrote shortly after 9/11 calling some of the casualities "little Eichmans," in reference to Adolph Eichman, one of Hitler's top henchmen.
A spokesman for the Board of Regents said that Churchill's claimed rights to Free Speech were not germain to the reason for his dismissal.
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07-24-2007, 11:09 PM
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Finally. Took them long enough.
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07-24-2007, 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Rudey
Finally. Took them long enough.
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Was thinking the same thing. What comes around, goes around.
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07-24-2007, 11:16 PM
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Boy, you guys are fast. I was finishing up an edit and you had already posted...
Impressive.
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07-24-2007, 11:21 PM
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Boy, you guys are fast. I was finishing up an edit and you had already posted...
Impressive.
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I got word on my blackberry that you posted and anything you post is critical enough for me to offer an opinion within seconds.
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07-24-2007, 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Rudey
Finally. Took them long enough.
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Kidding aside, I agree.
Here's (from the link) is part of the reason this thing got so drawn out:
"In June 2006, Professor Churchill filed an appeal with the university’s Privilege and Tenure Committee, three of whose members recommended that he be suspended without pay for a year and demoted to assistant professor, while two others thought he should be fired. Soon after, Mr. Brown, the president, recommended that the board dismiss Professor Churchill."
I suspect, knowing Brother Brown even as little as I do, that this would have been over long ago if it had been up to him and hadn't been for the above.
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07-24-2007, 11:43 PM
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Don't you think that some of slowness of response has to do with genuine concern about academic freedom?
Churchill didn't actually earn tenure but instead misrepresented his scholarship to receive it, so he deserved to be fired, no doubt.
But because this dishonestly was only brought to light in response to his controversial statements, I think there was some fear of a slippery slope with lose of true academic freedom. So there was a temptation to err on the side of leniency that wouldn't have existed his dishonesty had been brought to light under different circumstances.
Or you think they'd be this slow with anyone with tenure?
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07-25-2007, 08:55 AM
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I think they had to do due diligence...and I think they are now properly prepared for the lawsuit he will likely bring.
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07-25-2007, 09:50 PM
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I think they had to do due diligence...and I think they are now properly prepared for the lawsuit he will likely bring.
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The suit was filed today in Denver.
I'm not real sure how tenure works, but even if he misrepresented himself and his credentials, tenure was "granted." I wonder if the former voids the latter?
Hank Brown is a JD, so I'm sure he wanted the university in the best position for the suit.
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