Ward Churchill Reveals More About Higher Ed's Rot

By himself, Ward Churchill is an irrelevant piece of noisy crap. What makes him consequential is what he reveals about the corruption of higher education.

Since he was busted for, among other things, falsifying his ancestry for professional gain, plagiarism and falsification of scholarship, he's been the subject of an official inquiry by his employer, the University of Colorado.

Lately though, we've learned that UC has done all it can to stack the deck in Churchill's favor by appointing some of his most slavish admirers to his jury.

Investigations by the Denver Post has forced fo Churchill groupies to resign from the committee, Robert Williams and Bruce Johansen.

Williams said Churchill, "through sheer force of intellect, energy and a radical reformer's zeal, has established himself as a major scholar and public intellectual."

Johansen said he read some of Churchill's books and found them "well-argued and intensively documented in a scholarly manner."

Couldn't the University of Colorado have investigated these guys to verify their impariality before appointing them? And, if these guys possessed the slightest scrap of integrity, couldn't they have informed UC that they'd already made up their minds?