The Associated Press reports the results of the University of Colorado's prolonged investigation into ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill's academic integrity. The results appear to be damning:

BOULDER, Colo. -- An investigation of a professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi found serious cases of misconduct in his academic research, a University of Colorado spokesman said Tuesday.

One member of the five-person investigative committee recommended that ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill be fired, and four recommended he be suspended, university spokesman Barrie Hartman said.

Churchill has denied doing anything wrong. He said earlier Tuesday that he had yet to see the report.

University officials had earlier determined Churchill could not be fired for his comments about the terrorist attacks, but they launched an inquiry into allegations about his research, which included accusations of plagiarism and fabrication.

Churchill's wife, Natsu Saito, who also teaches in the ethnic studies department, said Tuesday she had resigned her tenured teaching position at the school but said she and Churchill have no plans to leave Boulder.

In her resignation letter, Saito accused the university of reneging on promises to her and the department, ignoring racial harassment of the department and individuals, and treating Churchill unfairly. She said her decision to resign was not prompted by the pending report.

UPDATE: More at InsideHigherEd.com, which seems to have better information on how the panel members voted. The Rocky Mountain News summarizes the report. Read CU's report here.

The one charge of disrespect for Native American oral traditions seems a weird one: I want to read what exactly the panel means by that.

"I want to read what exactly the panel means by that."

So what is stopping you? Read already.

The report states that when called on his fabrications, Churchill claimed that they came from Indian oral traditions. Those oral traditions never existed. Hence, by attempting to deceive his way through investigation of his serial fraud, he abused the notion of Indian oral tradition in a way that is deeply offensive to the tribes involved.