Sunday, May 21, 2006

Ward Churchill and academic dishonesty

Clay Jenkinson opines:

People like Ward Churchill... make parents wary of universities - or at least humanities professors - and they lead taxpayers to wonder why they are forced to support institutions that seem to go out of their way to offend the American public. Churchill should apologize for his unprofessionalism. He should resign. Fat chance on either front.

Now that the CU investigative committee has proved that Churchill is a dishonest and sloppy scholar, a special pleader, the university must decide whether to fire him, suspend him, punish him in some other way or just reprimand him and move on.

4 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...

Actually, just be glad they did not give him an honorary doctorate for being their very own Good Soldier Schweik

My Frontier Thesis said...

AA, great to have you back.

I'm certain the honorary Ward Churchill doctorates will be flowing in (if not already) in due course.

side-note: Clay Jenkinson also happens to be the regional/NoDak Lewis and Clark expert — I think the Bismarck Tribune regards him as the second or third most brilliant mind in the state.

Arelcao Akleos said...

Glad to be back. Cassandra prophesied doom, but not this day! She is to be released tomorrow morning, and the worst is clearly over.

Tecumseh said...

Glad to hear she's doing better. Kids are quite resilient, much more so than us old timers...