VSCTP Alan Kahan's interview in the Denver Post highlights the work Dr. Kahan has done on campus to help build bridges across the CU Boulder Campus. From the October 9, 2022 article:
“In part because of Mr. Eastman, this position has been considered a position for ideologues or people who take an extreme political view,” Kahan said. “That’s not what this position has been about. The Benson Center has not ever been intended to represent one particular party line. It’s always been about intellectual freedom, diversity and heterodoxy. And it has a conservative label, but that’s in part because it is conservatives who are the defenders of intellectual diversity.”
Rumors of the politicization of the American university, which he presumed to be inaccurate, partly drove his interest in teaching in the U.S. again.
“I found it’s not just true, but it’s far worse than what I anticipated,” Kahan said.
For example, Kahan said some Boulder faculty members will write political email signatures or post their political views on their office doors.
Kahan said it’s clear the campus is left-leaning and that the Benson Center is “a drop in the bucket” when it comes to conservative representation on campus.
Kahan’s conservative students have told him they’re afraid to express their points of view on campus without being penalized.
This attitude, Kahan said, is why some conservatives take issue with higher education as a whole."