Via the Rocky Mountain News: Prof accused of plagiarism

Officials at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia sent CU an internal 1997 report detailing allegations about an article Churchill wrote
“The article . . . is, in the opinion of our legal counsel, plagiarism,” Dalhousie spokesman Charles Crosby said in summarizing the report’s findings.

Churchill did not return calls to his home or office Thursday seeking comment.

Dalhousie began an investigation after professor Fay G. Cohen complained that Churchill used her research and writing in an essay without her permission and without giving her credit. Although the investigation substantiated her allegations, Cohen didn’t pursue the matter because she felt threatened by Churchill, Crosby said.

Crosby said Cohen told Dalhousie officials in 1997 that Churchill had called her in the middle of the night and said, “I’ll get you for this.”

Cohen still declines to talk publicly about her experience with Churchill, but she agreed the Dalhousie report could be shared with CU officials, Crosby said, because “whatever concerns she may have about her safety are outweighed by the importance she attaches to this information getting out there.”

I really don’t know what CU’s legal option are with Churchill, but it is exceedingly clear that if he is guilty of all he has been charged with, the University has to get rid of him. And again I would reiterate that whomever was responsible for his hiring and granting of tenure demonstrated gross incompetence.