[news] Opposition Mounts as University of Colorado President Calls for Ward Churchill to be Dismissed

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

A growing number of scholars see the [University of Colorado's] investigation of [Ward] Churchill's scholarship as completely illegitimate and a dangerous precedent threatening dissent and critical thinking in the universities. The CU - Boulder chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has written that "we believe that the investigation now is widely perceived to be a pretext for firing Churchill when the real reason for dismissal is his politics."

  


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