CU to ‘vigorously challenge’ Churchill’s reinstatement

by E Wayne Ross on April 10, 2009

Daily Camera: CU to ‘vigorously challenge’ Churchill’s reinstatement

BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado will “vigorously challenge” Ward Churchill’s effort to get his job back in the school’s ethnic studies department, a CU spokesman said Thursday.

Ken McConnellogue, spokesman for the CU system, said the university is relying on its findings that Churchill engaged in repeated and flagrant academic misconduct to support its stance that having the controversial former professor back on the Boulder campus is a “bad idea.”