Via Inside Higher Ed:
Ward Churchill, the controversial University of Colorado professor found guilty by a faculty panel of multiple forms of academic misconduct, has released a detailed defense. In a six-page reply, he questioned the process under which he was investigated, the standards the committee applied, and its conclusions. He characterized the process as “the latest step in CU’s ongoing attempt to fire me for political speech and, more fundamentally, for scholarship which challenges the orthodox ‘canon’ of historical truth.”