Iowa Board of Regents picks UI political science professor as intellectual freedom center director

The Iowa Board of Regents has made another final selection for the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa’s permanent leader after its previous choice rejected the offer. After closed-session interviews Wednesday afternoon, the board announced at its Nov. 12 meeting that UI political science associate professor Brian Lai would serve as the center’s new director. Board President Robert Cramer said in his board report that the center is getting a restart. “The Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa did not work this past year,” Cramer said. “So we’re making changes, and we look forward to working with the new permanent director … to build the center in the right way.” Carson Holloway, the then-University of Nebraska at Omaha professor previously selected by the board to head the center, took another position at the University of Florida.

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