I don't really disagree with you, John, but, in practice, I have seen very little done in this regard voluntarily by universities. An excellent example, BTW, would be Ward Churchill. In this particular case, I'm not thinking about his controversial views, but I am thinking about his apparently fraudulent claim to be of American Indian ancestry (as you well know, undoubtedly one of the reasons he was hired in the first place), his sale of original artwork that appears to have been nothing more than copies of the work of others, and his published scholarship, which I understand ranks right up there with Michael Bellisles and John Lott in terms of accuracy and integrity.
I realize that there has been a lot of political grandstanding by both left and right about the man, but it seems to me, shorn of the bombastic rhetoric, the actual facts about him, his scholarship and his ethics are quite damning. I have to wonder why this man is still employed by a reputable university. |
