BOULDER — If a judge won’t give Ward Churchill a job back at the University of Colorado, the former ethnic- studies professor plans to ask for more than $1 million, he said Monday.
Churchill, who won a wrongful-termination lawsuit against the university last week, said he doesn’t accept the contention that dissatisfaction with his presence on campus should prevent his reinstatement.
For those at CU who can’t stand having him so close, Churchill has an offer: “If it really makes you that uncomfortable, you’re free to leave.”
A Denver jury determined Churchill, 61, was unlawfully fired by CU for exercising his First Amendment rights in a scathing essay about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves will decide at a yet-to-be scheduled hearing whether Churchill can return to the university.
