Churchill Denied Legal Fees Required by University Rules

August 8, 2006 on 11:58 pm | In Analysis

Ward Churchill has one internal appeal to the University of Colorado’s Privilege and Tenure (P&T) Committee before former Interim Chancellor DiStefano’s recommendation to fire him goes to President Brown and then to the Board of Regents.

According to the CU Rules, in such an appeal:

The university shall contribute up to $20,000 of the reasonable fee of an attorney for services directly related to the representation of the faculty member in a dismissal for cause case, so as to facilitate the proceeding and to ensure that the faculty member’s case is effectively presented.

On August 8, 2006, the chair of the P&T Committee informed Ward Churchill’s lawyer David Lane that there is no money to pay him because the funds are not “authorized by Board of Regents policy.

In other words, the University is again violating its own rules and procedures – as well as its responsibility to protect academic freedom, and the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech, due process, and equal protection – in order to fire Ward Churchill. Read attorney David Lane’s response.

For numerous other examples of such violations in this case, see Timeline.