University of Colorado Proactively Seeks “Conservative” Professor – Boulder Lefties Doth Protest

For years institutions of higher learning across the nation have implemented a system in which the college admissions process has been manipulated to intentionally unlevel the playing field in the name of “diversity.”

Ironically enough, university officials have, at the same time, shown no interest in intellectual diversity in U.S. academia….until now.

According to a recent report in the Rocky Mountain News, the “University of Colorado is considering a $9 million program to bring high-profile political conservatives to teach on the left-leaning campus.” The program is intended to create an "endowment for a Visiting Chair in Conservative Thought and Policy."

That’s great CU is looking to address the lack of intellectual diversity on their campus, but I’m not sure that plugging in one token conservative professor is the best way to go about it. For true progress, universities must foster overall diversity in opinion and philosophy amongst professors and students, rather than plant one loner to, as George Will put it, be studied in the same way that anthropologists study a foreign culture. But at least university officials in Boulder acknowledge there is a problem.

The Moving Picture Institute provides an outstanding portrayal of the lack of diversity in thought across American universities and the suppression of speech on campus in their highly acclaimed documentary, Indoctrinate U. Go here to view the trailer and arrange a screening in your town or on you college campus.