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</font></div><div><h5 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="State_Bar_investigation">State Bar investigation</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h5><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On October 4, 2021, a bipartisan group of attorneys, including two former federal judges and two former justices of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="California Supreme Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">California Supreme Court</a>, filed a complaint with the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Bar_of_California" title="State Bar of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Bar of California</a>&nbsp;asking for an investigation of Eastman relating to "his representation of former President Donald J. Trump in efforts to discredit and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election."<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-116" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[116]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-117" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[117]</a></sup>&nbsp;In March 2022, the State Bar of California announced that since September 2021, it had been investigating claims of possible violations of law and ethics rules by Eastman.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-118" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[118]</a></sup>&nbsp;Eastman's attorney said he expected Eastman to be exonerated.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-119" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[119]</a></sup></font></p><h5 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Repercussions_at_universities">Repercussions at universities</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h5><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On January 9, 2021, the chairman of Chapman's board of trustees and two other members (including former Democratic Congresswoman&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Sanchez" title="Loretta Sanchez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Loretta Sanchez</a>) called on the university's president and provost and the law school's dean "to promptly take action against Eastman for his role in the events of Jan. 6." Eastman responded that he was speaking two miles away from the Capitol building.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-120" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[120]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto2_121-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-auto2-121" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[121]</a></sup>&nbsp;Four days later,<b>&nbsp;Chapman announced that Eastman had agreed to retire from the university</b>, and the university's president,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniele_C.
Struppa" title="Daniele C. Struppa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daniele C. Struppa</a>, said that Eastman and the university had "agreed not to engage in legal actions of any kind, including any claim of defamation that may currently exist, as both parties move forward".<sup id="cite_ref-chapman_university_news_122-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-chapman_university_news-122" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[122]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Eastman published a statement the next day saying that those who publicly condemned him "have created such a hostile environment for me that I no longer wish to be a member of the Chapman faculty, and am therefore retiring from my position, effective immediately." He said he would continue with his Spring 2021 position as Visiting Professor of&nbsp;<b>Conservative Thought and Policy at the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado" title="University of Colorado" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">University of Colorado</a>&nbsp;</b>and intended to then devote full-time effort to his position as director of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Claremont Institute</a>'s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-auto2_121-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-auto2-121" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[121]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-123" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[123]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The University of Colorado cancelled Eastman's Spring 2021 courses due to low enrollment.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-124" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[124]</a></sup>&nbsp;The university also revoked some of Eastman's public-facing duties but permitted him to conduct scholarship.</b><sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-125" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[125]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_77-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-:1-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a></sup></font></p><h5 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other">Other</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h5><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On January 7, 2021, Eastman edited this&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wikipedia</a>&nbsp;article to portray his post-election role in a more favorable light. His editing was reverted due to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing_on_Wikipedia" title="Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conflict-of-interest rules of Wikipedia</a>, and on January 9 he appealed on the article's talk page, where some changes were approved but others were denied.<sup id="cite_ref-WP-20211028nc_126-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-WP-20211028nc-126" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[126]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://www.colorado.edu/cwctp/conservative-thought-policy</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;w fellows? just one:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>By Mitchell Byars</b>
The Daily Camera</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BOULDER&nbsp;—&nbsp;The&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">University of Colorado</span>&nbsp;announced Wednesday morning&nbsp;<b>Steven Hayward&nbsp;</b>will be appointed as the&nbsp;first visiting scholar in conservative thought.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hayward, a Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Fellow at the&nbsp;<b>Ashbrook Center&nbsp;</b>at Ashland University in Ohio, will begin his one-year appointment in the fall.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Dr. Hayward brings an impressive breadth of knowledge to this position, having researched a range of&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">environmental,&nbsp;</span>historical and political issues," said&nbsp;Steven R. Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences&nbsp;at CU, in a release. He added that Hayward's recent investigations of environmental issues "bring important dimensions to discussions on campus ... He also shows dedication to our teaching mission, planning a well-defined range of courses. We are pleased that he will join us as a visiting scholar."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hayward will teach in fall and spring semesters in 2013-14. He tentatively is scheduled to&nbsp;teach four undergraduate courses: three in political science (Constitutional Law 1 and 2, and American Political Thought) and&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">one in environmental studies, Free-Market Environmentalism.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"This is a bold experiment for the university and me to see whether the ideological spectrum can be broadened in a serious and constructive way," Hayward said in a statement. "Good teaching should make all students, of whatever disposition, better thinkers. In the humanities, this should be done by considering fairly the full range of perspectives on a subject. That's the way I intend to conduct classes while I am visiting at the university, and I hope that students of every kind of opinion will feel welcome in my classroom."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hayward beat out&nbsp;<b>two other finalists, Linda Chavez and Ron Haskins.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hayward holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Claremont Graduate School. He has been the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he was principal author and project director of the AEI's "Energy and Environment Outlook."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

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The initiative, which is supported entirely by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cufund.org/giving-opportunities/fund-description/?id=10190" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s, border-color 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s;">private funds</a>, seeks highly visible scholars who are deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Visiting scholars may hold the title for one or two years. They are expected to teach a load commensurate with his or her field and offer public lectures, public seminars and/or informal discussions with students and the public. While on campus, the visiting scholar&nbsp;brings in prominent members of the conservative intellectual community from around the country for a day at CU-Boulder; the guests of the program give lectures that are free and open to the public.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Applicants may come from academic, military, media or policy communities.&nbsp;The selection of visiting scholars is made by members of the Executive and Advisory Boards of the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and&nbsp;Policy, including a mix of faculty and community members.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The visiting scholars in Conservative Thought and Policy comprise:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2017-2018:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.colorado.edu/today/2016/12/21/kaufman-named-fifth-visiting-scholar-conservative-thought" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s, border-color 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s;">Robert G. Kaufman</a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />2016-2017:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/cwctp/2016/02/17/beckwith-named-new-scholar-conservative-thought" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s, border-color 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s;">Francis Beckwith</a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />2015-2016:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/cwctp/conservative-thought-policy/conservative-scholars/brian-domitrovic" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s, border-color 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s;">Brian Domitrovic</a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />2014-2015:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/cwctp/conservative-thought-policy/conservative-scholars/bradley-j-birzer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s, border-color 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s;">Bradley J. Birzer</a><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2013-2014:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/cwctp/conservative-thought-policy/conservative-scholars/steven-hayward" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s, border-color 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s;">Steven Hayward</a></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">12/16</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert G. Kaufman, a political scientist specializing in American foreign policy, has been named the 2017-18 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at CU Boulder. He is the fifth person to hold the position.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kaufman, the Robert and Katheryn Dockson Professor of Public Policy at the&nbsp;<b>Pepperdine</b>&nbsp;University School of Public Policy, is scheduled to teach two courses per semester in fall 2017 and spring 2018.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, he will be encouraged to foster discussion by hosting public events in the campus community and perhaps around the state.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kaufman received his juris doctor from Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C., and his bachelor’s, two masters’ and a doctoral degree from Columbia University in New York City. In May 2016, he received an advanced law degree in dispute resolution from the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kaufman said he was honored and delighted to accept the appointment. He is no stranger to the CU Boulder campus, having participated for nine years in the CU Conference on World Affairs, an experience he described as “stimulating and welcoming.”</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I hope to make a rigorous contribution to the intellectual life of the university and the state, broadly understood,” Kaufman said, adding:&nbsp;</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Consider me a happy academic warrior who delights in engaging all types of audiences:&nbsp;academic, professional and political. I strive to combine academic rigor with intellectual curiosity, to be principled without being dogmatic, and to disagree agreeably when we do disagree even fundamentally.”&nbsp;</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Pasnau, professor of philosophy and director of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.colorado.edu/cwctp/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s, border-color 0.25s ease 0s, color 0.25s ease 0s;">Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy</a>, which houses the Conservative Thought and Policy Program, had high praise for Kaufman.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“He is one of the leading critics of recent American foreign policy, and the champion of a return to a more muscular stance, ideas that could not be more relevant in the current political context,” Pasnau said.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Professor Kaufman is a famously energetic and entertaining teacher who fits perfectly into the center’s ambitions to stimulate intellectual discourse on campus.”</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kaufman has written for scholarly journals and popular publications including The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, The Washington Times<em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">,</em>&nbsp;the Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">.</em></font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He has written four books, including his most recent,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Dangerous Doctrine: How Obama's Grand Strategy Weakened America</em>. His other publications include&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">In Defense of the Bush Doctrine,</em>&nbsp;a biography</span>;&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics</em>, which received the Emil and Katherine Sick Award for the best book on the history of the Pacific Northwest; and&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Arms Control During the Pre-Nuclear Era</em>.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kaufman also assisted President Richard M. Nixon in the research and writing of Nixon's final book,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Beyond Peace</em>.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kaufman is a former Bradley Scholar and current adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation u kty press, daniel pipes blurb</font></b></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">. He has taught at Colgate University, The Naval War College and the University of Vermont.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent months, a CU Boulder advisory committee has identified finalists for the 2017-18 visiting scholar position, which is a one-year appointment. The committee has sought a “highly visible” scholar who is “deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both.”</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The advisory committee includes members of the faculty and community and is chaired by Pasnau.</font></p><p neue="Neue" helvetica="Helvetica" w01="W01" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Conservative Thought and Policy Program is supported by private funds.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 0);">With Republicans running the Board of Regents</span>&nbsp;for years, a series of conservative presidents, the current one Benson privatizing the university, the silencing of that 'liberal' voice the Silver and Gold Record, THANK GOD we finally have a conservative scholar!<b>&nbsp;Welcome to Liberty University West!!</b></font></p></div><div>=</div>