Panel urges against firing professor
A University of Colorado committee has recommended that a controversial professor accused of faulty research be suspended for one year rather than fired.
Ward L. Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies who touched off a national firestorm with an essay about the 2001 World Trade Center victims, was accused in this case of misrepresenting the effects of federal laws on American Indians and claiming the work of a Canadian environmental group as his own.
Churchill denied wrongdoing and requested a review by a faculty committee.
Three members recommended he be suspended; two that he be fired.
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