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May 16, 2006
Churchill Update
The Ward 'little Eichamn' Churchill investigating committee released its report recently. For those of you who do not know, Churchill is a tenured professor at the University of Colorado who called those killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11 'little Eichmans'. Churchill's graduate education consists solely of a master's degree from a non-accredited university and he lied about his ethnicity to get hired by the university. He also has a long history of intentional plagiarism and misrepresentation in his academic work, at least according to the university committee that investigated him.
Even so, most of the committee thought he should only be suspended without pay and did not think his tenure should be revoked. This raises several questions. What would it take to lose your tenure at the University of Colorado? Does the university expel students who repeatedly and intentionally commit acts of plagiarism and misrepresentation? If you do not have tenure yet and get caught intentionally plagiarizing work, will you be denied tenure? Was it support for Churchill's political beliefs or support for dishonest academics that made them recommend keeping his tenure?
Here is an excerpt from the committee report:
Based on its investigation of those allegations, the Committee unanimously found, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Professor Churchill committed several forms of academic misconduct as defined in the policy statements of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado system: 1. Falsification, as discussed in Allegations A, B, C, and D. 2. Fabrication, as discussed in Allegations C and D. 3. Plagiarism, as discussed in Allegations E and G. 4. Failure to comply with established standards regarding author names on publications, as discussed most fully in Allegation F but also in Allegations A, B, and D. 5. Serious deviation from accepted practices in reporting results from research, as discussed in Allegation D.The Committee did not find fabrication in the first sub-question of Allegation D or plagiarism in Allegation F
The Committee found that Professor Churchill's misconduct was deliberate and not a matter of an occasional careless error. The Committee found that similar patterns recurred throughout the essays it examined. The Committee therefore concluded that the degree of his misconduct was serious, but differed on the sanction warranted.
Posted by Pete at May 16, 2006 02:53 PM
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