Writing at Minding the Campus, Professor John Ellis offers two cheers forthe dismissal of the disgraceful former head of Colorado’s “Ethnic Studies”Department. Read his piece here.

Why only two cheers? Because the university has much more to do. Ellis says,”An individual was removed, but the larger problems of which he was a symptom remain. A department that thought this an acceptable standard for the professoriate will not be placed in receivership, a dean that let is happen on his watch will not be fired for dereliction of duty, a provost who did not ensure that he had appointed deans of adequate backbone will not be replaced, and so on up the line. The whole corrupted system will be left in place — just as it was when Al Capone’s empire survived his jailing on aperipheral charge.”

The people of Colorado should demand much more action from university officials than just terminating the employment of Churchill.