You’re Fired!

The University of Colorado Board of Regents just made it easier to dismiss a tenured professor, according to a recent article in The Denver Post:

The University of Colorado Board of Regents on Thursday drastically shortened the amount of time it takes to fire a tenured professor, approving what CU officials believe to be one of the quickest faculty-dismissal timelines in the country.

Under the new timeline, the process will take about 100 days. In the past, it could take years for the university to fire a tenured professor for misconduct.

The streamlined procedures come in the wake of the scandal surrounding Ward Churchill, an ethnic-studies professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who called the victims of September 11 “little Eichmanns” and who has been accused of plagiarizing and fabricating material in his own research.

The case against Churchill is still unresolved more than two years after the investigation into his work began.