The Board of Regents finalized the advisory board for the newly established University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom on Sept. 17.
Described as a center aiming to promote intellectual diversity on campus, the advisory board, which is also in charge of appointing the director of the center, is ironically missing the one thing it claims to value: diversity.
Within the 26-member board, only two are women, only half are from Iowa, and many politically lean far right, with only three Democrats in comparison to 11 Republicans and 12 independents…