The University of Colorado Boulder today announced three finalists for the inaugural Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy. This month, the finalists will make one-day campus visits, during which they will hold public forums. Since last summer, an advisory committee has been working to identify finalists. The committee has sought a âhighly visibleâ scholar who is âdeeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both.â