Ward Churchill Guilty of Academic Misconduct

From the University of Colorado, Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct, the finding that controversial professor Ward Churchill has been guilty of several forms of academic misconduct, including plagiarism.

You can read the entire report here.

This was not simply a matter of being sloppy with quotes or citations.

The Committee found that Professor Churchill’s misconduct was deliberate and not a matter of an occasional careless error. The Committee found that similar patterns recurred throughout the essays it examined.

Churchill became notorious on the basis of a long series of incendary comments he made, the most well-known being his comparing the victims in the World Trade Center 9/11 attacks to Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann.

Church is an archtypal — if rather extreme — example of a politically correct race hustler in academia.