 In January 2005 , during the controversy over his 9 / 11 remarks , Churchill resigned as chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado — his term as chair was scheduled to <unk> in June of that year . On May 16 , 2006 , the <unk> Committee of the Standing Committee on Research <unk> at the University of Colorado concluded that Churchill had committed multiple counts of academic <unk> , specifically plagiarism , fabrication , and <unk> . On July 24 , 2007 , Churchill was fired for academic <unk> in an eight to one vote by the University of Colorado 's Board of <unk> . 
