University Panel Orders Probe of Professor
A University of Colorado panel recommended a full investigation into allegations of research misconduct involving a professor who triggered a national outcry for comparing some Sept. 11 victims to Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
The faculty committee called for investigating Ward Churchill on seven allegations involving plagiarism, misuse of others’ work, and falsification and fabrication, interim Provost Susan Avery said.
University officials ordered the investigation after they decided that Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, could not be fired for his remarks.
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