Recommendation of Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano with Regard to Investigation of Research Misconduct | Ward Churchill | Special Report | News Center | University of Colorado at Boulder

After conducting the due diligence I felt was necessary, I have come to a decision regarding the recommendations of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct pertaining to Professor Ward Churchill. Today, I issued to Professor Churchill a notice of intent to dismiss him from his faculty position at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

It looks like Mr. Churchill’s finally annoyed his University enough that they’re taking action. It’s about time. While I was upset about his little Eichmann comments I can understand they were protected by the First Amendment. What bothered me more than anything was his apparent misrepresentation of himself as Native American. I don’t understand how the University stood for that in their initial review. I have no problem with the head of Native American Studies at a University not being Native American as long as they were otherwise the best candidate. But isn’t honesty and integrity worth something? If he represented himself as something he was not, something as key to his philosophy and beliefs as his race, how could they let him stay? Apparently his University has finally reached that conclusion itself.

h/t HotAir