The University of Colorado is considering an endowed chair for conservative thought, and as you’d imagine the proposal hasn’t been received very well.

More on that in a moment on the Face The State Radio Minute.

It’s no secret that Boulder, and the University of Colorado’s flagship campus there, is a bastion of liberalism. And we’ve all heard the stories about Professor Ward Churchill and his America-bashing.

There’s an effort afoot to endow a visiting chair on the faculty for a conservative academic, to teach students about the merits of capitalism, the free-enterprise system, limited government and the like.

Except for one little detail: Chancellor Bud Peterson told the Wall Street Journal he doesn’t think the conservative chair needs to be an actual…political conservative. Seems to defeat the purpose of the whole enterprise, doesn’t it? But then again, this is CU, and there’s still a long way to go in achieving even a modicum of intellectual diversity on campus.

For FaceTheState.com, I’m Brad Jones.