Suspension recommended for controversial Colorado prof
A University of Colorado committee has recommended that a controversial professor accused of faulty research be suspended for one year rather than fired.
Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, touched off a national firestorm with an essay that compared some of the 2001 World Trade Center victims to Adolf Eichmann, a key planner of the Holocaust.
It was some of his other work, however, that led an interim chancellor of the Boulder campus and another committee to recommend Churchill be fired.
[HNN Editor: 2 of the 5 person committee recommended he be fired. Final punishment is up to CU President Hank Brown.]
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Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, touched off a national firestorm with an essay that compared some of the 2001 World Trade Center victims to Adolf Eichmann, a key planner of the Holocaust.
It was some of his other work, however, that led an interim chancellor of the Boulder campus and another committee to recommend Churchill be fired.
[HNN Editor: 2 of the 5 person committee recommended he be fired. Final punishment is up to CU President Hank Brown.]