{"id":2479,"date":"2007-05-29T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/05\/the-ward-churchill-endgame\/"},"modified":"2007-05-29T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T18:10:13","slug":"the-ward-churchill-endgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/05\/the-ward-churchill-endgame\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ward Churchill Endgame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/05\/29\/churchill\">The Ward Churchill Endgame<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a faculty panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder last year found Ward Churchill guilty of repeated and intentional instances of research misconduct, the committee included in its report a metaphor for the way many people view the Churchill case:<\/p>\n<p>If a police officer doesn\u2019t like the bumper sticker on a driver\u2019s car and so stops the driver for speeding, is a ticket justified as long as the driver was really speeding?<\/p>\n<p>Hank Brown, president of the University of Colorado System, gave his answer on Friday and it\u2019s clear that to Brown, speeding is speeding. He formally recommended that Churchill, who has tenure as an ethnic studies professor at Boulder, be fired. In a detailed letter to the Board of Regents, Brown said that Churchill\u2019s violations of academic research norms were too serious and too numerous to ignore \u2014 regardless of the circumstances that led to all the scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: The Ward Churchill Endgame When a faculty panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder last year found Ward Churchill guilty of repeated and intentional instances of research misconduct, the committee included in its report a metaphor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/05\/the-ward-churchill-endgame\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,555,2274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-free-speech","category-tenure-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}