[tag]Ward Churchill[/tag], professor at the University of Colorado committed [tag]academic misconduct[/tag], according to the report of an investigative committee. The [tag]investigation[/tag] centered around what the University referred to as [tag]research misconduct[/tag].

From the full text of the report on the University of Colorado’s website:

The seven allegations considered by this Committee refer to only a small fraction of Professor Churchill.s extensive body of academic work. Allegations A, B, C, and D cite no more than a few paragraphs within much longer essays (though the accounts at issue are repeated in multiple publications). Allegations E, F, and G deal with questions of authorship concerning essays written by Professor Churchill that appear to reproduce passages from one printed pamphlet and two essays written by other scholars without appropriate acknowledgment.

From the summary of findings posted on the University of Colorado’s website

The Committee was charged with investigating seven allegations:
Allegation A: Misrepresentation of General Allotment Act of 1887
Allegation B: Misrepresentation of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990
Allegation C: Captain John Smith and smallpox in New England, 1614-1618
Allegation D: Smallpox epidemic at Fort Clark and beyond, 1837-1840
Allegation E: [tag]Plagiarism[/tag] of a pamphlet by the Dam the Dams group
Allegation F: Plagiarism of Professor Rebecca Robbins
Allegation G: Plagiarism of Professor Fay G. Cohen

Based on its investigation of those allegations, the Committee unanimously found, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Professor Churchill committed several forms of academic misconduct as defined in the policy statements of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado system:
1. Falsification, as discussed in Allegations A, B, C, and D.
2. Fabrication, as discussed in Allegations C and D.
3. Plagiarism, as discussed in Allegations E and G.
4. Failure to comply with established standards regarding author names on publications, as discussed most fully in Allegation F but also in Allegations A, B,and D.
5. Serious deviation from accepted practices in reporting results from research, as discussed in Allegation D.

The Committee did not find fabrication in the first sub-question of Allegation D or plagiarism in Allegation F.

The Committee noted additionally that Professor Churchill was disrespectful of Indian oral traditions when dealing with the Mandan/Fort Clark smallpox epidemic of 1837, both in his essays and during the course of this investigation, as discussed in Allegation D.