Hank Brown, president of the University of Colorado, will recommend firing Ward Churchill, the ethnic-studies professor whose comments about victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks ignited a national controversy, the Daily Camera reported. The Boulder, Colo., newspaper obtained a copy of Mr. Brown’s 10-page report, which has not been officially released. According to the newspaper, Mr. Brown believes the controversial professor should be fired for a number of reasons, including “conduct which falls below the minimum standards of professional integrity.”

Mr. Brown told the newspaper that his report must still go back to the university’s Privilege and Tenure Committee for a last review before being sent back to him for final approval. That committee had recommended this month that Mr. Churchill should be suspended for a year but not dismissed, despite an investigative panel’s finding that he had committed research misconduct. The regents will make the final decision on the professor’s fate. —Charles Huckabee