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The New York Times: Colorado Regents Vote to Fire a Controversial Professor
After more than two years of public tumult, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted Tuesday to fire a professor whose remarks about the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks led to a national debate on free speech. But it was the professor’s problems with scholarship that the board cited as the cause for his termination.
Rocky Mountain News: CU regents fire Ward Churchill
The first, very long chapter of the Ward Churchill saga ended this afternoon as just about everybody — including Churchill — had predicted: He was fired from his job as ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado.
The next chapter is set to begin Wednesday, when the controversial academic and his civil rights attorney, David Lane, sue the university in Denver District Court.
Denver Post: Regents ax prof; battle not yet settled
The nearly unanimous decision to fire professor Ward Churchill stirred discontent among some faculty Tuesday, many of whom vowed to fight the decision.
Many professors said they saw the decision coming and said they were crushed by what it might do to recruiting creative professors to the campus.
Already, as news bubbled out across the half-empty summer campus, several faculty said they will plan teach-ins and panel discussions about civil rights this fall.
Inside Higher Ed: Ward Churchill Fired
More than two and a half years after Ward Churchill’s writings on 9/11 set off a furor, and more than a year after a faculty panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder found him guilty of repeated, intentional academic misconduct, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted 8-1 Tuesday evening to fire him.
The Chronicle: University of Colorado Board of Regents Fires Ward Churchill, Who Vows to Sue
Nearly six years after Ward Churchill compared some American victims of terrorism to Nazi bureaucrats, the Board of Regents of the University of Colorado voted Tuesday night to fire him. But the controversial ethnic-studies professor said he plans to sue.
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