An academic panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder investigating Ward Churchill has returned its findings. According to Inside Higher Ed:
Among the violations that the committee found Churchill had committed were falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, failure to comply with established standard regarding author names on publications, and a ?serious deviation from accepted practices in reporting results from research.”
Nevertheless, only
[t]hree of the panel?s five members believe that the violations of academic standards are severe enough to make dismissal ?not an inappropriate sanction.? But only one of those three members believes that dismissal is the ?most appropriate sanction.? Two others favor suspension without pay for five years.
Two other members of the panel said that they did not believe that the violations were serious enough to merit dismissal. They recommend a suspension of two years without pay
