CU Boulder Benson Center Shutdown Calls John Eastman Insurrection Ties

The University of Colorado was just blasted by the Colorado Latino Leadership, Advocacy & Research Organization for using a “rigged” process to justify naming interim president Todd Saliman as the sole finalist to fill the position long-term.

That’s not the only controversy looming for the state’s largest higher-ed institution. New Era Colorado, which describes itself as “the leading voice for young people in Colorado politics,” has launched a campaign, complete with online petition,to pressure administrators to shut down the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, a privately funded branch of CU Boulder that was launched in the early 2000s as a way to add conservative voices at the famously liberal institution.

Since 2013, the Benson Center has hosted visiting…