A majority of the University of Colorado committee looking into charges of research misconduct against Ward Churchill said Tuesday that the ethnic studies professor should be fired.
The panel - made up of nine CU faculty, a staff member and a graduate student - agreed unanimously with an investigative committee's earlier findings that Churchill "has committed serious, repeated and deliberate research misconduct," including plagiarism and fabrication of material.
Of the nine members who cast secret ballots, six recommended dismissal. Two said he should be suspended without pay for five years, while one suggested a two-year suspension without pay.
In a 20-page report forwarded to CU's interim provost and the dean of arts and sciences, committee members said the findings were only exacerbated by Church-ill's unwillingness to admit wrongdoing.
"We are drawn to the irresistible conclusion that Professor Churchill is unable, or at least unwilling, to acknowledge legitimate critique," the report states. "If he is unwilling to acknowledge critiques, we are pessimistic that he is likely to change his behavior."
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