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The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 10, 2006
This is an excerpt from the introduction to David Horowitz’s new book,
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, which will
be officially released on Monday, February 13.
Trials of the Intellect in the Post-Modern Academy
In January 2005, Professor Ward Churchill became a figure of national
revulsion when his impending visit to Hamilton College was linked to an
article claiming that the victims of 9/11 were “little Eichmanns” who
deserved their fate. Churchill’s article produced an outcry of such
force that it led to the removal of the faculty head of the host
committee at Hamilton and the resignation of the president of the
University of Colorado where he was Professor of Ethnic Studies and
Department Chair. As a result of the uproar, Churchill himself was
removed as head of the Ethnic Studies Department and university
authorities began an investigation into how he had acquired his faculty
position in the first place.
Far from being a marginal crank, Ward Churchill was (and at this writing
a year later still is) a prominent personage at the University of
Colorado and in the academic world at large. A leading figure in the
field of Ethnic Studies and widely published, his appearance at Hamilton
in January 2005 would have been the 40th campus that had invited him to
speak in the three years since 9/11.[1] The opinions expressed in his
infamous article[2] were themselves far from obscure to his academic
colleagues. They had first been published on the Internet in October
2001 and reflected views that were part of the intellectual core of his
academic work, familiar both to university authorities in Colorado and
to his faculty hosts at Hamilton. These facts made the scandal an event
whose significances extended far beyond the fate of one individual to
implicate the academic culture itself.
In the course of these events, several facts about Churchill’s academic
career were brought to light to provide other grounds for questioning
his university position. Although Churchill was a department head who
received an annual salary of $120,000, he had no doctorate, which was a
standard requirement for tenured positions, not to mention chairs.
Moreover, his academic training had been in Communications as a graphic
artist rather than an academic field related to Ethnic Studies. The
Masters degree he held was from a third-rate experimental college, which
did not even give grades in the 1970s when he attended. He had lied to
qualify for his affirmative action hire, when he claimed on his
application that he was a member of the Keetoowah Band of the Cherokee
tribe. In fact, his ancestors were Anglo-Saxon and the Keetoowah Band
had publicly rejected him. An investigative series by the Rocky Mountain
News also maintained that he had plagiarized other professors’ academic
work and had made demonstrably false claims about American history in
his own writing, literally making up American atrocities that never
happened.[3]
Complete @:
www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21249
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 10, 2006
This is an excerpt from the introduction to David Horowitz’s new book,
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, which will
be officially released on Monday, February 13.
Trials of the Intellect in the Post-Modern Academy
In January 2005, Professor Ward Churchill became a figure of national
revulsion when his impending visit to Hamilton College was linked to an
article claiming that the victims of 9/11 were “little Eichmanns” who
deserved their fate. Churchill’s article produced an outcry of such
force that it led to the removal of the faculty head of the host
committee at Hamilton and the resignation of the president of the
University of Colorado where he was Professor of Ethnic Studies and
Department Chair. As a result of the uproar, Churchill himself was
removed as head of the Ethnic Studies Department and university
authorities began an investigation into how he had acquired his faculty
position in the first place.
Far from being a marginal crank, Ward Churchill was (and at this writing
a year later still is) a prominent personage at the University of
Colorado and in the academic world at large. A leading figure in the
field of Ethnic Studies and widely published, his appearance at Hamilton
in January 2005 would have been the 40th campus that had invited him to
speak in the three years since 9/11.[1] The opinions expressed in his
infamous article[2] were themselves far from obscure to his academic
colleagues. They had first been published on the Internet in October
2001 and reflected views that were part of the intellectual core of his
academic work, familiar both to university authorities in Colorado and
to his faculty hosts at Hamilton. These facts made the scandal an event
whose significances extended far beyond the fate of one individual to
implicate the academic culture itself.
In the course of these events, several facts about Churchill’s academic
career were brought to light to provide other grounds for questioning
his university position. Although Churchill was a department head who
received an annual salary of $120,000, he had no doctorate, which was a
standard requirement for tenured positions, not to mention chairs.
Moreover, his academic training had been in Communications as a graphic
artist rather than an academic field related to Ethnic Studies. The
Masters degree he held was from a third-rate experimental college, which
did not even give grades in the 1970s when he attended. He had lied to
qualify for his affirmative action hire, when he claimed on his
application that he was a member of the Keetoowah Band of the Cherokee
tribe. In fact, his ancestors were Anglo-Saxon and the Keetoowah Band
had publicly rejected him. An investigative series by the Rocky Mountain
News also maintained that he had plagiarized other professors’ academic
work and had made demonstrably false claims about American history in
his own writing, literally making up American atrocities that never
happened.[3]
Complete @:
www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21249