Anti-American fraud Ward Churchill is being fired from the University of Colorado.

BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado announced Monday that it will dismiss controversial professor Ward Churchill.

“Today, I issued to Professor Churchill a notice of intent to dismiss him from his faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder,” CU Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano said Monday afternoon.

Churchill has 10 days to appeal, which entails making a request to have the university president or chancellor forward the recommendation to the faculty senate Committee on Privilege and Tenure. A special panel will then conduct hearings on the matter and make a recommendation to the president on whether grounds for dismissal are supported.

Another committee found Churchill guilty of research misconduct and another panel recommended that he be fired because of “repeated and deliberate” infractions of scholarship rules.

Churchill’s attorney promptly called a news conference Monday afternoon to announce that his client does intend to appeal to the tenure committee. He also mentioned going to court. Churchill, who ignited a firestorm by calling some of the World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns” in an essay he wrote after Sept. 11, 2001, has vowed to sue the school if he was fired.

It all started here: LGF: The Anti-American Academy.

UPDATE at 7/24/07 9:43:25 am:

Correction! This story was sent to me by several readers, but I didn’t notice that it’s a year old. There’s expected to be a decision today, but as of this writing the university is still deliberating.